Dialogue Katie and Krsna

Dialogue ● Presentation of what characters in a literary work say ● Makes up entire text in plays except for stage directions ● Provides characterization ● Advances plot ● Suggests tone ● Depicts narrator’s attitude

Verisimilitude ● Latin for “similar to the truth” ● Plausibility; the semblance of truth ● Eliminates pauses and stammerings of everyday talk o Like eavesdropping on an everyday conversation ● Example: Hemingway

Speech Headings ● Descriptions of what the person is doing as they talk o “...he said coldly...” The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald o “...he says, walking in one day...” The Red Convertible, Louise Erdrich ● In drama, stage directions o “Exit, pursued by a bear” - Winter’s Tale, Shakespeare

Direct and Indirect Discourse ● Direct: direct quotes o Ex. “We could have been killed, or worse, expelled.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, J. K. Rowling ● Indirect: summaries of what a person says o Ex. “Mr. and Mrs. Dursley of Number 4, Privet Drive, were proud to say they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, J. K. Rowling

Repartee ● Witty and rapid back and forth ● Ex. Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare o Benedick: T’will save him a predestinate scratched face. o Beatrice: Scratching could not make it worse an t’were such a face as yours. o Benedick: Well, you are a rare parrot teacher. o Beatrice: Better a bird of my tongue than a beast of yours. o Benedick: I wish my horse had the speed of your tongue and so good a continuer.

Soliloquy ● Monologue delivered by character alone on stage ● Ex.: Iago in Othello: o “Thus do I ever make my fool my purse; For I mine own gained knowledge should profane” ● Similar to first-person narration

Aside ● Speech heard only by audience o Sometimes addressed privately to another character ● Ex.: Hamlet o Claudius plots to kill Hamlet by poisoning his wine, lets audience know his schemes ● Ex.: Taming of the Shrew o Petruchio’s farce: “Hortensio, say thou wilt see the tailor paid.”