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The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. Represents the point of greatest tension in the work
Climax
literature in which plot and character are developed through dialogue and action
Drama
background information necessary to understand characters and their actions
Exposition
A speech by a single character without another character's response.
Monologue
One who writes the play
Playwright
A speech in a play that is meant to be heard by the audience but not by other characters on the stage.
Soliloquy
A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.
Subplot
A type of drama in which the characters experience reversals of fortune, usually for the worse.
Tragedy
The sorting out or unraveling of a plot at the end of a play, novel, or story.
Resolution
refers to events that lead to the climax by adding complications and building suspense
Rising Action
Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or a story.
Foreshadowing
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.
Flashback
In the plot of a story or play, the action following the climax of the work that moves it towards its denouement or resolution.
Falling Action
main character or hero in a drama
Protagonist
The time and place of a literary work that establishes its context
Setting
character that opposes the hero in a play; Or the force against which another character struggles.
Antagonist
Are vital to the development and resolution of the conflict. In other words, the plot and resolution of conflict revolves around these characters.
Major Character
short speech or comment delivered by a character to the audience (not heard by the other actors / characters)
Aside
A dramatic character who does not change.
Static Character
dramatic work that is light and humorous; A type of drama in which the characters experience reversals of fortune, usually for the better.
Comedy
Undergoes an important change in the course of the play. The opposite is a static character who remains essentially the same.
Dynamic Character
In a play are often, but not always, minor characters. They tend to be presented though particular and limited traits.
Flat Character
A character is depicted with such psychological depth and detail that he or she seems like a "real" person.
Round Character
of actions and events in a literary work
Plot Sequence
The voice and implied speaker of a fictional work, to be distinguished from the actual living author.
Narrator