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ELEMENTS OF

DRAMA
CONTEXT
• HISTORICAL
• POLITICAL
• SOCIAL
• CULTURAL
• RELIGIOUS
• LITERARY
• AUTHOR’S
• READER’S
SUBJECT MATTER / THEME(S)
GENRE - ELEMENTS
PLOT AND SUBPLOT
CONFLICT
• INTERNAL
• EXTERNAL
STRUCTURE
• BEGINNING - EXPOSITION
• MIDDLE – COMPLICATION, DISCUSSION
• END – NO RESOULTION IN A DOLL’S HOUSE
• CONNECT TO CLIMATIC MOMENT
• 3 UNITIES IN A DOLL’S HOUSE
CHARACTERIZATION
FOILS
DOUBLES
SETTING
• HISTORICAL
• GEOGRAPHICAL
• INDIVIDUAL
• DAY/NIGHT
• SEASONS
STAGE DIRECTIONS
COSTUMES
PROPS
DIALOGUE
ATMOSPHERE
TONE
MOOD
PACE
DRAMATIC TENSION
DICTION
SYNTAX
SYMBOLS
IMAGERY
• VISUAL
• AUDITORY
• OLFACTORY
• GUSTATORY
• TACTILE
• KINESTHETIC/KINETIC
• THERMAL
• COLOUR
MOTIF
OTHER SENSE DEVICES
• SIMILES

• METAPHORS

• PERSONIFICATION

• APOSTROPHE

• METONYMY

• SYNECDOCHE

• HYPERBOLE/EXAGGERATION

• UNDERSTATEMENT

• INUENDO

• PUN

• ALLUSION

• IRONY AND SO ON…


SOUND DEVICES
• ALLITERATION — Her hair
• ASSONANCE —leap year
• CONSONANCE — long black land
• ONOMATOPOEIA — pit-a-pat, buzz, splash, bang, boom
• AUDITORY IMAGERY —
• RHYTHM —
SPECIAL DEVICES
• USE OF PAUSES
• REPETITION
TECHNIQUES
• FORESHADOWING
• JUXTAPOSITION
• CONTRAST
• RETROSPECTIVE TECHNIQUE
TITLE
INTERTEXTUAL AND INTRATEXTUAL
CONNECTIONS
PERSONAL CRITICAL RESPONSE
WORKS CITED/BIBLIOGRAPHY/SOURCES

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