Dramatic Elements
Conversation between characters
What is dialogue?
Walter is an example of this archetype
What is the father archetype?
The lines that help add natural pauses to a poem
What is a line break?
FANBOY (for, and, nor, but, or, yet) that joins two complete thoughts
What is a coordinating conjunction?
Imagery, figurative language, tone, and archetypal elements are included in this perspective
What is the author's craft?
The playwright's descriptions of characters, sets, props, costumes, sound effects, and lighting
What is stage directions/
The river, the rock, the tower, and the city are examples of this type of archetype
What is a location archetype?
Refers to a change in tone
What is a shift?
Two or more complete sentences written as though they were one sentence
What is a run-on sentence?
The time period in which a text was created is context for this perspective.
What is the historical/cultural pespective?
What is the written text of a play, movie, or broadcast?
What is a script?
Loyal, will to face ordeals together
Who is the companion?
Creates a rhythmical pattern like Shakespeare's iambic pentaMETER.
What is a meter?
Group of words that lacks a subject and/or predicate. Like this.
What is a fragment?
Text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world are referred to this for Reader's Response
What are text connections?
A smaller unit of an act; it may be the same setting or around the same time
What is a scene?
The bully, desires power
Who is the tyrant?
The study of poetic sounds and rhythms
What is prosody?
Two main clauses joined only by a comma
What is a comma splice?
Class, wealth, power, gender, and race are included in this perspective
What is the sociological perspective?
The author of A Raisin in the Sun
Who is Lorraine Hansberry?
Tests the hero at the beginning of a quest
Who is the threshold guardian?
Arrangement of groups of lines - creates a "paragraph"
What is a stanza?
Introduces a list or joins two independent clauses
What is a colon?
Gender portrayals, behaviors, and relationships are included in this perspective.
What is sociological perspective?