What are dramatic techniques?

Devices a playwright uses to represent their ideas.

How does Shakespeare often illuminate the protagonist?

Juxtaposition with another character

What is Dramatic Irony?

Irony understood by the audience by not the characters

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Dramatic Techniques in Shakespeare

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Dramatic Techniques in Shakespeare, specifically relating to the teaching of Othello.

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What are dramatic techniques?
Literary techniques employed in dramatic performance
Stage direction to generate meaning out of the theatrical
Devices a playwright uses to represent their ideas.
Teenage choices that are used to create drama such as gossip
2
Iago describing Othello as 'his Moorship' is an example of...?
Humour
Word play
Dramatic hyperbole
Racism
3
How many Acts are Shakespeare's plays divided into?
Four
Sixteen
Eight
Five
4
How can we usually determine a character is mad or of lower status?
They speak in prose
They speak using oxymoron
They have few lines
They speak in rhyming couplets
5
How does Shakespeare often illuminate the protagonist?
Exaggeration of character
Juxtaposition with another character
Stark contrast between the male and female lead
Main character is always melancholic
6
How is sexual imagery generally used in Shakespeare's plays?
Berate women
Highlight patriarchal society
Appeal to the lower class understanding
Illustrate political atmosphere
7
Which of these is NOT a metatheatrical convention?
Play-within-a-play
prologue
Eavesdropping
Line delivery
8
What is Dramatic Irony?
Irony understood by the audience by not the characters
Irony that the characters understand before audience
Hyperbolic expression in theatre
Stating the opposite of what one means through line delivery
9
How is character feeling and background information usually provided to the audience?
Soliloquy
Aside
Monologue
Dramatic Irony
10
The word 'drama' is Greek for...
Climax
Violence
Action
Issue
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Why did Shakespeare use few stage directions?
The actors knew what they were doing
His theatre company was too poor
Relied on props and costuming
Believed words more powerful
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Speech by an actor directly to the audience that aren't 'heard' by other characters on stage is
Dramatic irony
Soliloquey
Aside
Line delivery

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