ELEMENTS OF DRAMA A. PLOT: This is the arrangement of events in a play‚ the selection and order of scenes based on a story. A story is different from a plot in a way that a story has full account of events while a plot has a selection of scenes from the story in chronological order for stage presentation. The plot has elements like exposition; this is everything the audience needs to know about a play. Conflict; this is the clash of opposing forces. Climax; this is the point at which one of the
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Informal Letter Dear Mimi‚ How are you my dear sister? I hope you are fine. Don’t worry about me; I am very fine. I am now a very strong young man you know. How are those wonderful brothers of mine? Pass them my greetings. I received you letter. Thanks a million for writing. The brothers and sisters in my congregation are fine. I am only sorry to heat that Br. Banda is still sick. I hope he will recover soon. My journey back here was fine‚ though it was quite a long one. I wanted to travel
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Violent Media is good for Kids by Gerard Jones Outline Introduction: Jones’s thesis expresses that violent media are not a bad influence on children‚ but it does however; allow them to better express themselves. They also can benefit them to release their inner rage as well as gaining their confidence. Body paragraph: Throughout Jones’s article he uses some persuasive antics to encourage readers that violent media can decrease the amount of rage and reckless a child can have… “ pretending to
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(Merriam Webster). While the definition of an antagonist is simple‚ identifying antagonists in literary works can often be a challenge. Sometimes the antagonist is obvious‚ such as Nils Krogstad from The Doll’s House. Other times the protagonist is the villain while the antagonist is the hero‚ as Macbeth and Macduff in Macbeth. Furthermore‚ sometimes the antagonist is an abstract figure or idea‚ such as society in The Stranger. Such is the case in the Athenian tragedy Oedipus Rex‚ written by Sophocles.
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when it comes to Shakespeare. If the unexpected gender bending doesn’t work to impress the auditors‚ I hope it at least gets their attention.
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“Barn Burning” William Faulkner In most stories one reads there is going to be a protagonist and an antagonist. The protagonist is the character in the story that is usually considered the good guy. The antagonist is usually considered the bad guy and clashes with the protagonist. In the story “Barn Burning” by William Faulkner he has a clear protagonist and antagonist. The protagonist of the story is Sarti. The antagonist of the story is Sarti’s father Abner. Faulkner makes this a very interesting
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The TV show ‘Dexter’ is the story about an anti-hero named Dexter Morgan that works as a blood splatter expert for the Miami Police Department by day‚ but by night he kills bad guys who have escaped the legal system. It is not your typical TV drama because it shows unrealistic situations and events because of his personality and background. Dexter also verges on Dark Comedy. When all of these elements are combined‚ Dexter is my favorite TV show because it is so different from everything
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Film Genre 9/29/2013 The film I choose to dissect was True Grit .Besides many irregularities with the classic Western films‚ True Grit can nearly be considered a classic Western. Like Stagecoach‚ the film has clearly defined roles of moral and immoral‚ and in the end‚ like in all classic Western’s‚ the bad guy gets it and the good guy’s ride off into the sunset. The leading female role makes it more of a revisionist. In True Grit I believe that it has a little of both a classic Western and
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Why is Shakespeare considered to be one of the greatest playwrights of his time? Shakespeare lived in the Elizabethan era and had to write for an Elizabethan audience and theater. By today’s standards‚ this was no picnic in the park. Under those circumstances‚ he wrote some of the greatest works in history. These works‚ still popular today‚ prove him to be a consummate dramatist. Shakespeare knew how to craft dramatic scenes full of external and internal conflict and emotion‚ something the Elizabethan
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How William Shakespeare changed the English language William Shakespeare was born/baptized on April 26th 1564 and died on April 23rd 1616. He was an English poet and playwright‚ widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world ’s pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England ’s national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His surviving works consist of about 38 plays‚ 154 sonnets‚ two long narrative poems‚ and several other poems. His plays have been translated
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