Structures
What characteristics are associated with a play (or drama)?
What is the definition of an archetype? What is the definition of folklore?
Archetype is a character mold and folklore is myths and legends passed down to teach values.
What is theme?
The underlying or central idea of a passage.
What does the following word mean?
Anne: 'Mother is unbearable. She insists on treating me like a baby, which I loathe.’
loath means to strongly dislike or detest something.
the art of persuasion
What are some differences between a drama and a narrative?
Drama - (show)
Narrative - (tell)
A trickster character is someone who is trying to survive and cause disorder. They can be clever and witty.
What is the difference between objective and subjective.
subjective includes bias, objective does not.
What does the following word mean?
He wears a jacket with a conspicuous yellow star on it.
Conspicuous means to stand out.
What does the following quote reveal about Anne?
"I'm going to treat this like a peculiar boarding school."
Anne tries to make the best out of hard situations.
List the following structures from most to least direct: drama, speech, poetry.
speech, drama, poetry
What is the archetype of a wise mentor? Who functions as that mentor in Anne Frank?
The wise mentor is meant to guide the hero and teach them. Otto Frank acts as the mentor in Anne Frank.
What is a theme in the Anne Frank play?
desperate times can change a person, be positive in dark times, etc.
What does the following word mean?
Anne [unabashed] “Then I’ll have to stop being a stranger, won’t I? Is he fixed?”
unabashed means not embarrassed.
"You will have to be quiet from the hours of 8 am to 6 pm."
It sets up what life in the annex is going to be like.
Which structure(s) would you use to move an audience emotionally?
Drama or poetry
What is a common theme in folklore?
Honesty
What is a theme in Elie Wiesel's Nobel Acceptance Speech?
Ignorance should be a crime, etc.
“Anne: I’m going to think of it as a boarding house. A very peculiar summer boarding house,”
Peculiar means strange
What are some things you can to "interact" with a text?
Highlight words, phrases, make notes in the margins, etc.
What would you, the audience, lose if you translated a narrative into a drama?
You would lose internal monologue and information.
What is an example of a "caregiver" character from Anne Frank? Why?
Miep Gies - she looks out for the people in the Annex.
“Anne comes running up the stairs. She is thirteen, quick in her movements, interested in everything, mercurial in her emotions.”
Mercurial means rapidly or unexpectedly changing mood.
It causes Anne to consider her view of the Star of David patch and if she will destroy it or keep it.