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Unit 4: Independent explorations
Quick questions on Close reading of drama in QCE Literature Unit 4
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What are dramatic conventions?Show answer
Conventions are the agreed devices that let a play do what unmediated reality cannot. A soliloquy gives the audience a character's private thought aloud. An aside lets a character speak past the others directly to the audience. Dramatic irony arises when the audience knows what a character does not, and the gap can fuel comedy or dread.
What is reading the play as built for performance?Show answer
The move that earns marks reads a dramatic feature, a line of subtext, a soliloquy's revelation, a piece of dramatic irony, a staged silence, and shows how it works on an audience. Treating a play as a novel with the prose stripped out misses the dimension that makes it drama. The strongest reading keeps the imagined performance in view.
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