You'll find choruses in Sophocles' Antigone and Oedipus Rex . The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. The climax represents the point of greatest tension in the work. Comedy A type of drama in which the characters experience reversals of fortune, usually for the better. In comedy things work out happily in the end.
Satiric plays offer a darker vision of human nature, one that ridicules human folly.
The use of a comic scene to interrupt a succession of intensely tragic dramatic moments. The comedy of scenes offering comic relief typically parallels the tragic action the scenes interrupt. Complication An intensification of the conflict in a story or play. Conflict A struggle between opposing forces in a story, or play, usually resolved by the end of the work. A major conflict in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll House is between Nora's view of women's place in society, and her society's view of women's place.