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| Anagnorsis | A critical moment of realisation especially preceding peripetia |
| Peripeteia | A sudden change of events or reversal of circumstances |
| Catharsis | the purging of the emotions or relieving of emotional tensions |
| Tableau | a representation of a picture, statue, scene, etc., by one or more persons suitably costumed and posed |
| denouement | the final resolution of the intricacies of a plot, as of a drama or novel |
| Pathos | the quality or power in an actual life experience or in literature, music, speech, or other forms of expression, of evoking a feeling of pity or compassion |
| Rising Action | a related series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward the point of greatest interest |
| Falling Action | the part of a literary plot that occurs after the climax has been reached and the conflict has been resolved. |
| Static Character | a literary or dramatic character who undergoes little or no inner change; a character who does not grow or develop |
| Dynaminc Character | a literary or dramatic character who undergoes an important inner change, as a change in personality or attitude |
| Motif | a recurring subject, theme, idea, etc. |
| Mean Length of Utterance (MLU) | Basically how much someone speaks |
| Mode of Adress | The way in which a character addresses another |
| Chomsky & Piager | Philosophers behind the ideas of nature vs nurture |
| Adjacency pairs | . An adjacency pair is composed of two turns produced by different speakers which are placed adjacently and where the second utterance is identified as related to the first. |
