Drama Literary DevicesDrama Literary Devices

Standard: ELABLRL1 DRAMA

• Identifies and analyzes dramatic elements, (i.e., monologue, soliloquy, aside, foil, satire, stock characters, dramatic irony).

• Identifies and analyzes how dramatic elements support and enhance the interpretation of dramatic literature.

• Identifies and analyzes dramatic elements, (i.e., monologue, soliloquy, aside, foil, satire, stock characters, dramatic irony).

• Identifies and analyzes how dramatic elements support and enhance the interpretation of dramatic literature.

Drama

• literature written to be performed

• Macbeth & Hamlet

• Action: List at least three other dramas

• literature written to be performed

• Macbeth & Hamlet

• Action: List at least three other dramas

Monologue

• extended speech by one character

• Queen Mab speech

• Action: List three movies where you have observed a monologue

• extended speech by one character

• Queen Mab speech

• Action: List three movies where you have observed a monologue

Soliloquy

• a speech in which a character, alone on the stage, addresses himself or herself; it is a dramatic means of letting the audience know the character's thoughts and feelings.

• Romeo and Juliet: courtyard scene• Action: Describe a moment in your life

where a soliloquy would be beneficial.

• a speech in which a character, alone on the stage, addresses himself or herself; it is a dramatic means of letting the audience know the character's thoughts and feelings.

• Romeo and Juliet: courtyard scene• Action: Describe a moment in your life

where a soliloquy would be beneficial.

Aside

• brief comments by an actor who addresses the audience but is assumed not to be heard by the other characters on the stage.

• Action: When have you observed an aside in your lifetime?

• brief comments by an actor who addresses the audience but is assumed not to be heard by the other characters on the stage.

• Action: When have you observed an aside in your lifetime?

Foil

• A character who contrasts and parallels the main character in a play or story.

• Mercutio:Romeo, Donkey: Shrek, Watson: Sherlock

• Action: Who is a foil in your life? How?

• A character who contrasts and parallels the main character in a play or story.

• Mercutio:Romeo, Donkey: Shrek, Watson: Sherlock

• Action: Who is a foil in your life? How?

Satire

• A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies

• Thumb biting from Romeo and Juliet

• Action: Why is Family Guy considered a satire?

• A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies

• Thumb biting from Romeo and Juliet

• Action: Why is Family Guy considered a satire?

Stock Characters

• Stock characters draw from widely known cultural types for their characteristics and mannerisms, and are often used in parody. Every culture has its own set of stock characters.

• The Simpsons: Nelson the bully; Romeo and Juliet: the servants; Fairy godmother; Gangstalicious and Thugnificent from Boondocks

• Action: Who would your stock characters be in your modern movie?

• Stock characters draw from widely known cultural types for their characteristics and mannerisms, and are often used in parody. Every culture has its own set of stock characters.

• The Simpsons: Nelson the bully; Romeo and Juliet: the servants; Fairy godmother; Gangstalicious and Thugnificent from Boondocks

• Action: Who would your stock characters be in your modern movie?

Dramatic Irony

• a situation that depends on the audience's knowing something that a character has not realized, or on one character's knowing something other characters do not know

• Everyone knows Juliet is dead but Romeo

• a situation that depends on the audience's knowing something that a character has not realized, or on one character's knowing something other characters do not know

• Everyone knows Juliet is dead but Romeo

Dialogue

• the lines spoken by the characters• the lines spoken by the characters

Stage Directions

• words in a dramatic script--generally italicized--that define an actor's (apart from his/her dialogue) actions, movements, attitudes and so forth throughout the play

• words in a dramatic script--generally italicized--that define an actor's (apart from his/her dialogue) actions, movements, attitudes and so forth throughout the play

Tragedy

• a type of drama--as opposed to comedy--that depicts the causally related events that lead to the downfall of the protagonist (in classic tragedy this person should be of unusual moral, intellectual, or social stature)

• a type of drama--as opposed to comedy--that depicts the causally related events that lead to the downfall of the protagonist (in classic tragedy this person should be of unusual moral, intellectual, or social stature)