| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Progression | the plot's always advancing forward feeling |
| Beats | small sections within the play |
| Units | large sections than beats within a play |
| formal scenes | scene is a collection of units marked by a change of time or place |
| French scenes | smaller than formal scenes |
| structure | the arrangement of the parts of the plot and their relationship to each other |
| point of attack | the movement when the play begins in relation to the background story |
| primary event | the most important incident in the background story |
| inciting action | the single event in the play the sparks the main action or conflict |
| conflict | characters with opposing wishes or running opposing events or opposing goals |
| climax | the prominent peek emotional intensity that produces a significant change in the characters |
| recognition | change from ignorance to knowledge on one part of the character |
| reversal | drastic change of fortune, accompanies recognition |
| catastrophe | the single most distinguishing feature in a classic tragedy |
| digression | something that departs from the main progression in the play, deviates from the plot |
| complex plots | plots contain recognition, reversals, catastrophe |
| simple plots | plots without recognition, reversals or catastrophe |
| resolution | compromise all the events following the climax |
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