Dillon+and+Elma


 * What everyone is reading and why? Dillon: I read a Shakespeare play almost every summer. I like the way he writes. Elma: Mrs. Nobles recommended it and the plot reminded me of the Hunger Games which I am really into right now
 * Find out something more about the genre. Courtroom, Dramedy, Historical, period piece, political, romance, and Lyric.
 * review what we already know? 3 forms- Comedy, Tragedy, Melodrama. Line breaks. Similar characteristics to short stories, such as setting, characterization, foreshadowing, plot structure. Some master techniques are specific to drama, such as character movement, character voice, double meaning, stage directions and script.

How does the author write the beginning of the genre? What master techniques have you seen so far and how?
 * Started w/ a list of the cast, then the setting, and then it dove right into the story
 * Stage directions: written in italic; actions are written inside brackets
 * Tradgedy: the main characters face conflicts that have deal with love, loss, pride, and abusive power that leads to one or more main characters' death
 * Characterization: the characters are either decribed directly or indirectly through the words spoken by other characters and through what the author writes about them
 * Script: everyone someone speaks there is a line break that directly state the name of person speaking
 * Hyperbole: the author exaggerating certain situations, emotions, and physical descriptions of characters
 * Plot structure: The author seperates different acts and scenes w/ roman numerals
 * Character voice: how the characters speak and their grammar implies what time period the play is in.