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Dramatic Poetry

This document outlines key elements and techniques of dramatic poetry and scripts. It discusses elements of drama like plot, theme, characters, dialogue and spectacle. It also covers elements of scripts such as sluglines, characters, action, dialogue, and transitions. Additionally, it details dramatic techniques including speech directions, asides, entrances/exits, scenes/acts, symbolism and stage directions. Finally, it examines types of dramatic poetry like tragedy, comedy, tragicomedy, farce, satire, fantasy and melodrama as well as forms like dramatic monologues, soliloquies and character sketches.

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Dramatic Poetry

This document outlines key elements and techniques of dramatic poetry and scripts. It discusses elements of drama like plot, theme, characters, dialogue and spectacle. It also covers elements of scripts such as sluglines, characters, action, dialogue, and transitions. Additionally, it details dramatic techniques including speech directions, asides, entrances/exits, scenes/acts, symbolism and stage directions. Finally, it examines types of dramatic poetry like tragedy, comedy, tragicomedy, farce, satire, fantasy and melodrama as well as forms like dramatic monologues, soliloquies and character sketches.

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  • Dramatic Poetry
  • Forms of Dramatic Poetry
  • Types of Dramatic Poetry

GROUP IV

DRAMATIC POETRY
- a story which is recited or sung

-Drama written in verse which is meant to be spoken and performed by actors in front of an audience

ELEMENTS OF DRAMA

1. Plot- this is what happens in the play

2. Theme- refers to the meaning of the play

3. Characters- the people (sometimes animals or ideas) portrayed by the actors in the play

4. Dialogue- the words written by the playwright and spoken by the characters in the play

5. Spectacle- everything that the audience sees as they watch the play.

ELEMENTS OF SCRIPT

1. Sluglines or Scene Headings - come at the beginning of each scene.

2. Characters - people in a story ; they are referred to and described by their character names

3. Action - refers to all the descriptions within a scene concerning the location, the movements of the
characters, or any other important plot points

4. Dialogue - refers to the words spoken by the characters.

5. Parentheticals / Stage Directions - adverbs or adverbial phrases which describe the movements or emotions
of a character during a piece of dialogue

6. Transitions - mark the end of a scene,describing the transition from one scene to the next

DRAMATIC TECHNIQUES / DRAMATIC DEVICES

1. Speech directions - words in brackets that tell the actor how to say the lines.

2. Asides - when a character temporarily turns away from another character and speaks directly to the audience.

3. Entrance and exits


*It is important to notice when characters exit and enter a scene. Pay particular attention to what is being said as
they enter or what they say as they leave.

4. Scenes and Acts


*It is important to pay attention to when a playwright chooses to end a scene and an Act (a number of scenes). It
is usually significant in building audience expectations of what is to come.

5. Symbolism - when an object is used to represent something else

6. Stage Directions - they tell us what should be happening on stage and will often include clues
7. Off-stage - noises off-stage may indicate the coming of conflict, of something bad likely to happen.

8. Recurring imagery - repeated words, phrases and images that help create a sense of mood or a key theme.

9. Soliloquy - when a character is alone on stage and speaks out his or her thoughts aloud

10. Language and length - how much or little is said by characters. Playwrights will often change the pace
(slowing down or speeding up) by how the characters speak.

TYPES OF DRAMATIC POETRY

1. Tragedy
-Drama that has a tragic ending

2. Comedy
-Ends happily

3. Tragicomedy
-Representing some action in which serious and comic scenes are blended
-A composition part taking of the nature both of tragedy and comedy

4. Farce
-a form of comic theater characterized by mistaken identity and confusion within a dignified setting.
-to entertain an audience with situations that are unlikely to happen, or extravagant in nature

5. Satire
-Makes fun of the stupid things humans do
- focuses on ridiculing characters or killjoys,

6. Fantasy
-creating unrealistic images
-fiction characterized by highly fanciful or supernatural elements

7. Melodrama
-a drama characterized by exaggerated emotions

FORMS OF DRAMATIC POETRY

1. Dramatic Monologue
-a poem written in the form of a speech of an individual character

2. Soliloquy
-A passage spoken by a speaker in a poem or a character in a play

3. Character Sketch
-Short description of character based on their traits

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