lit terms: dramatic structure and irony

Question 1

Conflict

Answer 1

A clash of actions, desires, ideas, or goals in the plot of a story or drama. Conflict may exist between the main character and another character, external force, or a destructive element in their own nature.

Question 2

Rising action

Answer 2

The development of plot in a story that precedes and leads up to the climax

Question 3

Falling action

Answer 3

Immediately follows the climax and shows the after effects

Question 4

Climax

Answer 4

Turning point or high point of a plot

Question 5

Exposition

Answer 5

The part of a play (usually at the beginning) that provides the background information needed to understand the characters and the actions

Question 6

Denouement

Answer 6

Or resolution. It’s the conclusion of the story.

Question 7

Irony

Answer 7

A situation, or a use of language, involving some kind of incongruity or discrepancy

Question 8

Dramatic irony

Answer 8

Discrepancy between what a character thinks and what a reader knows

Question 9

Irony of situation

Answer 9

Incongruities between appearance and reality of expectation and fulfillment

Question 10

Verbal irony

Answer 10

A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what’s meant