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What is climax in a literary work?
30) What is climax in a literary work?
Climax-is the Greek word for ladder. A climax makes us feel as if we have climbed to the top of a conflict. The moment of recognition is usually a major climax. It is the release of tension. Although drama contains moments of many kinds of recognition, there is usually one key moment somewhere in the middle of the play, when the agent- protagonist sees, or believes he sees, the true nature of his situation. The climax is the high point of the story, where a culmination of events create the peak of the conflict. The climax usually features the most conflict and struggle, and usually reveals any secrets or missing points in the story. Alternatively, an anti-climax may occur, in which an expectedly difficult event is revealed to be incredibly easy or of paltry importance. Critics may also label the falling action as an anti-climax, or anti-climactic. The climax isn't always the most important scene in a story. In many stories, it is the last sentence, with no successive falling action or resolution.
31) Optional elements of plot.
Prologue is preface, an introduction to the literary work, not related to the developing events, but anticipating the story. Epilogue is afterword, opinion, some information about the fate of the characters after the depicted events. Peripetieia is reversal of fortune. Anagnorisis: A revelation, or a moment of self-discovery. Deus ex Machina: the crane by which gods flew in as saviors at the end of a Greek play. The term is used nowadays to refer to a device at the end of a play in which characters are saved or problems are resolved. Hamartia: a character’s flaw. Hubris: an act of arrogance, where a character oversteps the mark. Usually followed automatically by nemesis. Nemesis: Goddess of retribution/ воздаяние, возмездие, кара, наказание, расплата/; also refers to someone who avenges or punishes. Stychomythia: a technique of quickfire dialogue.
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