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| Italian comedy using stock characters, improvisation, and narrative sketches |
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| that part of a plot where the efforts and forward actions of the protagonist are opposed - it follows exposition in rising action |
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| a far-fetched metaphor or simile; a concept or idea making a striking parallel between two highly dissimilar things |
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| a main action which opposes the protagonist of a plot |
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| the suggestive or associative meanings of a word; the emotive meaning, opposite the cognitive meaning and denotation |
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| identical consonant sounds and differing vowel sounds in words close together, as "fail" and "peel" |
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| two line stanzas; a pair of rhyming lines (heroic couplets come at ends of sonnets) |
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| the idea that true love is limited to the nobility; courtly love contrasts mere sexual interest; the woman enchants the man, adultery is glorified, marriage is scorned as loveless formality |
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| the moment of high tension at which a turning point takes place; a decisive, tense point |
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| the art of judging, analyzing, criticizing (not necessarily negative) |
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| the dictionary definition of a word - its factual meaning; the opposite of connotation |
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| the unknotting or resolution of the problems of a plot |
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| literally "god from a machine" - the appearance of the god-actor descending via a crane-like device to solve problems in ancient Greek plays; any sudden, unexpected, improbably rescure or solution to problems |
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| conversation between characters or actors |
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| the choice of words or wording; usually includes word order, such as "I saw her" vs. "Her I saw" being a diction choice |
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| an emotional choral hymn in honor of the god Dionysus; a wild, ecstatic song of praise, love |
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| a presentation wherein actors by gestures and words imitate for spectators a deed, with staging, properties, properties, positions, etc. |
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| Greek and Latin verse/poem, often on a sad or melancholic theme; a eulogy |
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| the omission of part of a word: "o'er" for "over", "e'en" for "even", "tis" for "it is" |
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| the projection of one's feelings into a perceived object; to feel yourself into something not yourself |
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| terminal rhyme at the ends of lines |
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| a line in poetry that concludes with a distinct pause, often created by punctuation |
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| a run-on line in poetry, where the sense of one line is carried over into the next line without pause |
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| the concluding stanza of a poem, dedicating it to whomever, or a poem of farewell |
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| a long, serious, narrative poem about heroes and heroics, usually set in a past imagined to be greater than the present |
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| an "inscription" for Greeks which became a short poem, usually solemn, and never satirical or stinging |
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| an appendix to a composition; a short concluding recitation |
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| literally, a "showing forth, especially of a deity" - in literature, a sudden revelation of the inner essence or awareness of a person or object or experience shown by physical detail |
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| in a plot, a portion having unity of its own, an incident |
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| a letter, or a poem in the form of an essay |
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