A remark spoken in an undertone by one character either to the audience or to another character, which the remaining supposedly do not hear.

A character who provides a striking contrast to another.

When the audience is fully aware of the situation that character(s) are unaware of.

Serve as an instructional manual for the director, actors, stage crews, and general reader.

A long, uninterrupted speech given by a character to both the other characters on stage and the audience.

A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage

A dramatic work that is light and often humorous in tone. It often ends happily with a peaceful resolution.

Used to describe the events that make up a story, or the main part of a story. Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution

A literary device that is used step-by-step in literature to highlight and explain the details about a character in a story.

Hinting at what will happen next in the story.

The intense feeling that an audience goes though while waiting for the outcome of certain events.

The reason the author has for writing. (Inform, persuade, express, or entertain.)

Description that appeals to the senses (sight, smell, touch, sound, and taste.)

A character who often provides support and illuminates the protagonist.

A character that remain the same and does not change.

A character that changes and evolves in some important way.

First sentence in an essay, used to grab the reader's attention. Can be a quote, simile, metaphor, startling fact, looking at opposite side, etc.

A sentence that states what side of an argument you are in and your reason for believing so.

Connects ideas between sentences.

A sentence in which you discuss the opposite and then you discuss why your side of the argument is superior.

Facts, statements, personal anecdote that clarify and support your main idea.

Rewords your position on the argument.

A sentence in you instruct the reader on what actions need to be taken in order to follow your position.

The intention for which you support an argument

A short and interesting story, or an amusing event often proposed to support or demonstrate some point and to make audience laugh. Ex. Telling a story in speech at a wedding.

Contain one or more dependent clauses

A compound sentence has two or more independent clauses. The clauses are often connected by FANBOY.

A method of narration in which present action is temporarily interrupted so that the reader can witness past events

One's listener or readership; those to whom a speech or piece of writing is addressed.

A writer's or speaker's choice of words

A text that provides factual information and explanations.

A conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning.

Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.

Ethos, pathos, logos

A brief reference to a real or fictional person, event, place, or work of art.

A contrast between expectation and reality.

A contradiction or dilemma.

A thing that represents or stands for something else.

A main idea or an underlying meaning of a literary work that may be stated directly or indirectly.

Attitudes and presuppositions of the author that are revealed by their linguistic choices (diction, syntax, rhetorical devices)

All the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests

The dictionary definition of a word.

The perspective from which a story is told.