Do you have skills?

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Do you have skills?
March Madness Review
The Skills METAPHOR,HYPERBOLE, SIMILE,PERSONIFICA
TION, MONOLOGUE, SOLILOQUY, ASIDE, STAGE
DIRECTIONS, THEME,CONFLICT,DRAMTIC IRONY,
PARAPHRASING.

• This isnt about basketball!
• It is about whether or not you have you mastered
  the skills from the Romeo and Juliet Drama unit?

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Metaphor

• Figure of speech that makes a comparison between
  two unlike things. Does not use like or as.

Shelvin was a wall, blocking every basketball
that came his way.
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Hyperbole

• Figure of speech that used exaggeration to
  express strong emotion to create a comic effect
  also called an overstatement.

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Simile

• Figure of speech that makes a comparison between
  two unlike things using like or as.

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Personification

• Giving human characteristics to a nonhuman thing

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Oxymoron

• An oxymoron is a figure of speech that combines
  contradictory terms.
• Literary oxymorons are used to reveal a paradox
  or contradiction.
• Examples
• pretty ugly freezer burn
• rolling stop same difference

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Monologue an extended uninterrupted speech or
poem by a person. The person may be speaking his
or her thoughts aloud or directly addressing
other people, e.g. an audience, a character,
reader or an inanimate object.
Jennifer Hudson performing a monologue.
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Soliloquy

• Long speech in which a character who is onstage
  alone expresses his or her thoughts.

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Aside

• Words spoken by a character in a play to the
  audience or to another character but that are not
  supposed to be overheard by the others onstage.

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Stage Directions

• Sets up the scene and tells the actors and
  readers where the character is on stage and what
  they are doing.
• Example
• Marquise is sitting at his desk in his room
  studying for his Freshman English exam. He
  suddenly stands up and walks out of the room and
  then immediately comes back into the room

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Theme

• The main idea, moral, or message, of an essay,
  paragraph, movie, book, play or video game.
• The message may be about life, society, or human
  nature.
• Themes often explore timeless and universal ideas
  and are almost always implied rather than stated
  explicitly.
• Example Love is the Worthiest of Pursuits.
  
• Sacrifice brings rewards.

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Conflict

• External A character struggles against an
  outside force. This could be another character,
  society, or nature.
• Internal A conflict that takes place entirely
  within a characters own mind.
• Person vs. Self

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Conflicts

• Man vs self
• Man vs man
• Man vs society
• Man vs nature
• Man vs fate

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Irony

• Situational Irony When there is a contrast
  between what would seem appropriate and what
  really happens. (What we expect and what really
  happened.

You stay up all night studying for a test. When
you go to class, you discover the test is not
until the next day.
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Verbal Irony

• A writer says one thing but really means
  something completely different.

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Dramatic Irony

• When the audience or reader knows something
  important that a character in the play/story does
  not know.

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PARAPHRASING

• To restate, concisely and in your own words, the
  sense or meaning of a text or passage from a book
  or journal article, etc

Hey Doc, could you explain that in English???
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Paraphrasing Practice with Shakespeare

• Sonnet 18
• Paraphrase each line in the space provided

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END OF 2010 DRAMA REVIEW