1. Dialogue Katie and Krsna

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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.

7. 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

8. 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.”