Literary techniques - Drama

What term is used when you (the audience) know what's going to happen but the characters don't?

A long speech in which a character alone onstage expresses his/her private thoughts or feelings

What is a common type of character or something commonly associated with different genres?

What is the term for when everything gets resolved at the end of a story?

What is a warning or a hint of a future event in a literary work?

What is it called when a character either speaks to you or directly acknowledges the audience?

A scene that interrupts the present action to "flash backward" and tell what happened earlier.

An apparent contradiction that is actually true

What is an inherent incompatibility between the objectives of two or more characters or forces?

What is the common thread or lesson that is incorporated throughout a literary work?

What is the word for the atmosphere or your feeling when reading a story?

What word is when main character realizes something about himself that helps resolve the plot?

What describes "what goes around comes around" or "the bad/good guy gets what's coming to him"?

What is the word for the back story of the characters usually told at the beginning of a story?

A character who sets off another character by strong contrast is . . .

The vantage point from which a writer tells a story

What literary technique is it when an unexpected power or event saves a hopeless situation?

What is the turning point in the action and/or the highest point of interest?

A person, place, thing, or event that stands for both itself and for something else.

A reference to literature, history, religion, mythology, politics, science, or pop culture

A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion or create a comic effect

The time and place in which a story is set

The main character in fiction, drama, or narrative poetry