What are dramatic techniques?

Devices a playwright uses to represent their ideas.

What is Dramatic Irony?

Irony understood by the audience by not the characters

How does Shakespeare often illuminate the protagonist?

Juxtaposition with another character

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

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