Summary
Drama focuses on many
or one main character that face defeats or triumphs when dealing with other
characters or challenges trough out a story. Drama develops situations through
speech and action, they also often have poetic forms, and Drama is meant to
resemble real life language as much as possible. Drama is also designed to be
played by people for people (by actors for audiences). Drama is an interesting genre because it can
be discussed as three things: literature, drama and as a performance. Drama can
be written in poetic forms by using rhyme and meter. Dialog, monologue and
stage directions are important parts of writing Drama plays. Dialog gives the
characters conversation, while monologue is spoken by a single character alone
on stage and stage direction gives the performer’s instructions about what to
do with their faces, voices, gestures, movements and actions. Language also
allows Drama plays to give their characters depth, characters use language to reveal
details about themselves and their lives. Drama writers use broad words and
metaphors that can have a double meaning and different connotations. Writers also take special consideration to the
time period their characters where written in, thus also making sure there
language matches up with that period.
Reader
Response
I did not know that
Drama had so many similarities with fiction. I did know however, that many
Drama plays, like the ones written by Shakespeare, are written like poetry.
Although I did not realize, until I read this, that Drama is meant to resemble
real life language (which looking back makes a lot of sense). Because of real
life language plays can become more relatable to the audience and readers. I also knew that dialog and language that a
writer uses is meant to tell more about the characters, and must match up with
the time period it is set in. I personally love the genre of Drama, because it makes life interesting, in
the plays at least. Ha! J
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