This refers to the scenery and furniture onstage (what we see onstage).

The sorting out or unraveling of a plot at the end of a play, novel, or story.

The means by which writers present and reveal character.

The conversation of characters in a literary work.

When a sentence is purposefully left incomplete or cut off.

This is a device often used in drama whereby a character relates his or her thoughts and

feelings to him/herself and to the audience.

A weakness or limitation of character, resulting in the fall of the tragic hero.

A quality of a play's action that stimulates the audience to feel pity for a character. This is always

an aspect of tragedy, and may be present in comedy as well.

The time and place of a literary work that establish its context.

A recurring important idea or image. It differs from a theme in that it can be

expressed as a single word or fragmentary phrase, while a theme usually must be expressed as a

complete sentence.

An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to

the main time frame of a work's action. Writers use these to complicate the sense of

chronology in the plot of their works and to convey the richness of the experience of human time.

Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or a story.

Where the audience or reader is aware of something important, of which the

characters in the story are not aware.

A struggle between opposing forces in a story or play, usually resolved by the end of the work. This may occur within a character as well as between characters.

The purging of the feelings of pity and fear that, according to Aristotle, occurs in the audience of

tragic drama. The audience experiences this at the end of the play, following the catastrophe.

Non-rhyming poetry, usually written in iambic pentameter. Most of Shakespeare’s

dialogue is written in this way, though it does occasionally rhyme.

This is a moment in a play or other work when a character makes a critical discovery.

A brief speech in which a character turns from the person being addressed to speak directly

to the audience; a dramatic device for letting the audience know what a character is really thinking

or feeling as opposed to what the character pretends to think or feel

The physical movement of a character during a play.