Fiction and Drama Review

It's a narrative device that is used in fiction and drama as a guide or hint at what is to happen next in the story.

• irony

• flashback

• foreshadowing

• deus ex machina

It is the sequence of events happening in the story.

• characters

• plot

• theme

• setting

It introduces the moment of insight, discovery or revelation of the character after the falling action.

• denouement

• climax

• rising action

• exposition

It provides and showcases the opposing objectives of the protagonist and the antagonist, or inside the protagonist.

• conflict

• irony

• flashback

• foreshadowing

The persons who inhabit the story.

• protagonist

• characters

• antagonist

• theme

It introduces the aftermath of conflict, whether it is resolved or not.

• exposition

• rising action

• climax

• falling action

The intention of this narrative device is to present a difference between what is imagined will happen and what actually happens.

• irony

• flashback

• conflict

• deus ex machina

The central idea or thesis or overall message that the story conveys.

• plot

• characters

• setting

• theme

It introduces the conflict of the story of play.

• climax

• conflict

• rising action

• denouement

It is employed by an author or a playwright through the use if a past event that will help the readers understand the present.

• deus ex machina

• flashback

• irony

• foreshadowing