English Notes: Literature and Drama
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English
-Explain why it is a metaphor and example of it being used, its affect
-Write in the form of the passage analysis
Paper 1: Passage analysis from either a prose or poem -2 hour
Paper 2: Comparative study -2 hours
Look up literary and drama terms in all plays
Stage directions and McCarthyism
Sample Questions:
“In plays, no one arrives on or leaves from the stage without contributing in some way to the complexity of the play.” Considering two or three plays you have studied, compare the impact on meaning of some arrivals and departures from the stage.
Or
(b) What dramatic techniques have playwrights used to convey ideas and/or beliefs in two or three plays you have studied, and how effective have they been?
Arthur Miller uses an allegory, which is the Salem Witch Trials as the McCarthyism concept from the 1950s. Just as the puritan citizens are accusing any civilian as a witch, any person, including the author himself had been accused of being a Soviet Russian during the Red Scare. He uses this play to introduce his beliefs and ideas regarding both the Red Scare and the witch trials and how absolutely absurd they were. He closely related the witch trials to the “show trials” he was placed under in the 50s.
Explore the ways in which dramatists have made use of monologues and/or soliloquies in at least two plays you have studied.
2. Plays employ various kinds of structural divisions such as prologues and epilogues, act and scene divisions, even carefully placed intermissions. Discuss the dramatic uses made of these divisions in at least two plays you have studied.
3. “A play should make you laugh or should make you cry.” With reference to at least two plays you have studied, discuss the methods playwrights use to generate emotional response in their audiences.
Commentaries:
1. An adequate to good answer will select some significant
English
-Explain why it is a metaphor and example of it being used, its affect
-Write in the form of the passage analysis
Paper 1: Passage analysis from either a prose or poem -2 hour
Paper 2: Comparative study -2 hours
Look up literary and drama terms in all plays
Stage directions and McCarthyism
Sample Questions:
“In plays, no one arrives on or leaves from the stage without contributing in some way to the complexity of the play.” Considering two or three plays you have studied, compare the impact on meaning of some arrivals and departures from the stage.
Or
(b) What dramatic techniques have playwrights used to convey ideas and/or beliefs in two or three plays you have studied, and how effective have they been?
Arthur Miller uses an allegory, which is the Salem Witch Trials as the McCarthyism concept from the 1950s. Just as the puritan citizens are accusing any civilian as a witch, any person, including the author himself had been accused of being a Soviet Russian during the Red Scare. He uses this play to introduce his beliefs and ideas regarding both the Red Scare and the witch trials and how absolutely absurd they were. He closely related the witch trials to the “show trials” he was placed under in the 50s.
Explore the ways in which dramatists have made use of monologues and/or soliloquies in at least two plays you have studied.
2. Plays employ various kinds of structural divisions such as prologues and epilogues, act and scene divisions, even carefully placed intermissions. Discuss the dramatic uses made of these divisions in at least two plays you have studied.
3. “A play should make you laugh or should make you cry.” With reference to at least two plays you have studied, discuss the methods playwrights use to generate emotional response in their audiences.
Commentaries:
1. An adequate to good answer will select some significant