The Diary of Anne Frank DRAMA

Analyzing Drama - Act 1 – Scene 1 drama - or play, is a form of literature meant to be performed by actors for an audience playwright – author of a play script – the text of a play cast of characters – a list of all the characters in the play stage direction – instructions that give readers, actors, the director, and the stage crew important details that explain what is happening setting – the time and place of the action

structure of a literary work – the way in which it is organized or arranged act – a major section in a play scenes – smaller sections of an act

Act 1 - Scene 2 The audience gets to know and understand the characters through the descriptions of their physical appearance. dialogue the written conversation between two or more characters. The format of the dialogue: the name of the character is given, followed by the words that he or she speaks The author draws contrast by identifying the differences in two or more subjects symbol – a person, place, or an object that stands for something beyond itself.

Act 1 - Scene 3 hyperbole - figure of speech in which the truth is exaggerated for emphasis or humorous effect Exchanges between characters can reveal or reinforce a reader’s ideas about them. denotation - literal or dictionary meaning of a word connotation -  a meaning that is implied by a word apart from the thing which it describes explicitly. - words carry cultural and emotional associations or meanings in addition to their literal meanings or denotations. idiom – an expression that has a different meaning from the meaning of its individual words - example: It costs an arm and a leg. = It’s expensive.

Act 1 - Scene 4 pun – a humorous play on words - some puns involve using different meanings of the same word - examples: Santa’s helpers are known as subordinate analogy – a comparison between two things that are alike in some way. - example: Just as a sword is the weapon of a warrior, a pen is the weapon of a writer.

Act Two – Scene 1, 2, 3 chronological order – the order in which the events occur character traits – different qualities of a character as revealed through dialogue tone - the attitude he or she express towards a subject or another character irony – a special kind of contrast between appearance and reality situational irony – a playwright contrasts what readers or characters expect with what actually exist or happens dramatic irony – the reader or audience knows something that a character does not