Act

Subdivision of a play 

Dramatic Irony 

The audience knows something that the character do not.

Comedy 

A play that ends happily 

Protangonist

The hero-or leading character with whom the audience sympathizes 

Scene 

Subdivision of an act

Plot

The main chain of events (squence of events) that make up the play 

Prologue 

The introduction section of the play 

Conflict 

The central struggle between opposing forces that moves

plot foward.

Antagonist

The character who opposes or competes with the protagonist 

Foreshadowing 

A clue in the play that reveals how events may transpire 

Alliteration

An example, "For, by your gracious, golden gillering gleams"

Repeats initial sound 

Double entendre 

Ambigous Language is also know as 

Imagery 

Highly descriptive language that appeals to the five senses 

Hyperbole 

Extreme exaggeration used for effect

Symbolism 

An object, person, place or thing that stands for something else. 

irony 

is the difference between what is expected and what actually happens 

Solioquy 

A long speech that reveals the innermost thoughts and feelings of the character who speaks it 

Repetition 

Used by the author to stress a character's emotions and traits or to stress a point and lend urgency to a theme or idea 

Oxymoron 

A combination of contradictory words (jumbo shrimp) 

Theme 

The main idea (s) or message (s) conveyed in a work of literature. 

Climax

Turning point of the play to which the rising action leads 

Tragedy 

A play dealing with tragic events and having an unhappy ending, esp. one concerning the downfall of the main characte

Simile 

A comparison of two things using like or as 

An elebarote metaphor or simile 

Plot 

The sequence of events that make up the story 

Genre 

A kind or typle or literary or art etc. 

Personification 

Giving a nonhuman thing human qualaties