peripeteia - a sudden reversal of fortune, hamartia - a character's fatal flaw, hubris - excessive pride / arrogance leading to downfall, anagnorisis - when the hidden is revealed to the protagonist, quatrain - ABAB, rhyming couplets - AA BB, prose - non-rhyming, non-rhythmical natural speech, verse - rhyming, usually in iambic pentameter, a foil - The main character's moral opposite, a sonnet - 14 lines, 3 quatrains and a rhyming couplet, catharsis - when pent-up emotion is realeased,

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