Events in a play or novel that lad to a turning point or climax in the action.

Often the same as the turning point, the greatest intensity, interest, or suspense in a narrative or drama that determines how the action will come out. A crucial part of the drama.

The series of events that happen after the Climax.

The ending that follows the climax. The final unraveling of a plot' complications.

The use of hints or clues in a narrative to suggest future actions.

An address to the dead as if living; to the inanimate as if animate; to the absent as if present; the unborn as if alive.

A deliberate, extravagant, and often outrageous exaggeration

The images or sensory details of a work.

A comparison of two unlike things not using like or as.

The use of the name of one thing for that of another associated with or suggested by it.

The repetition or variations of an image or idea in a work that is used to develop the theme or characters.

A statement that appears contradictory at first, nut actually presents truths.

A comparison of two unlike things that use like, as, or resembles.

In a drama, a moment when a character is alone nd speaks his or her thoughts aloud. Not meant to imply the actor acknowledges the audience.

A device in which a character in a drama makes a short speech that is heard by the audience but not the other characters

A rhetorical opposition or contrast of ideas by means of grammatical arrangement of words, clauses, or sentences.

Involves constructing a sentence so the predicate comes before the subject.

A Portion of a line of poetry, usually consisting of one accented and either one or two unaccented syllables

Unrhymed iambic pentameter

a metrical foot used in various types of poetry