The Dramatics

similar to a victory sound. Finally the piano takes over and gets a solo that is soon accompanied with the strings. The piano plays a confusing melody that turns into a peaceful one and all the instruments come together. The song slowly becomes more dramatic and all the instruments except for the oboe and flute stop on one note. The two instruments continue to play until the piano enters. The piano plays quick notes that hop all over the keys and notes that clash. However for a short time there…

The World’s Wife is based on intertextual webs and most of the poems take the form of a dramatic monologue. Duffy chooses to play the intertextual game in order to convey a certain message, to voice her ideas through historical, religious and mythical figures. She focuses on the marginalized, women in particular. Her trademark dramatic monologue is successfully employed in The World’s Wife (1999) in which, drawing on Greek mythology, the Bible, fairy tales, literature, history, and film,…

Amontillado”, various kinds of irony are on display from beginning to end in this illusive tale through the characters, Montresor and Fortunato. Poe emphasizes on three different types of irony in this story to heighten the reader’s engagement: verbal, dramatic, and situational irony. Beginning with verbal irony, it is clear throughout the story that Poe utilizes this irony to communicate one facet, but mean another. One example of verbal irony is when Montresor encounters Fortunato at the…

do. He says the speech slowly and there is also a large number of pauses throughout the entire speech, which makes both his words and his message more dramatic. There are also a lot of emotional changes throughout the speech in this version. One of the emotional changes occurs close to the beginning of the speech; he goes from being calm and dramatic to being intense while speaking quicker and angrier as he says: “For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, the oppressor’s wrong, the proud…

revealed that he is the source of Nora’s loan. He attempts to blackmail Nora into securing his job after Torvald tells him that he will be let go. Krogstad’s entrance may not be dramatic however it certainly adds drama to the play through his threats of shaming the family. Here we can see two entrances that while not very dramatic to begin with, cast a net of influence upon Nora who finds herself in a predicament at the…

human relationships. Pinter plays are characteristic of minimal plots and limited characters but the dialogues filled with powerful tension. He uses pauses, three dots and silence in his plays. They are the very essential and unique things of his dramatic dialogue. For Pinter silence is communication. The unexpressed is an integral element of the linguistic function. By the use of silence and pauses he gives a precise form to the seemingly ordinary and an emotional…

Driving while Stupid Final Paper “Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a manic” (George Carlin)? Carlin describes drivers as either idiots or maniacs depending on your traveling speed. In correlation, in the articleDriving while Stupid author Dave Barry highlights bad drivers from all over the world where he has traveled. In traveling around the world, Barry describes the drivers by the use of literary devices; however,…

Melos, which is held in Louvre, Paris. Hellenistic art showed much more sculptures of women nude and the Aphrodite of Melos is one of those. This sculpture is believed to be the personification of true beauty because of the ideal proportions and the dramatic appearance to…

Notes: I. Fable: A. Fable: A short story with a message, usually one involving a moral. More often than not characters are talking animals. II. Plot: How the story unfolds A. Dramatic situation: a person is involved in some conflict, character vs self, character vs character, character vs society, character vs nature, or character vs god. B. Beginning, middle, and end. 1. Exposition: “The opening portion that sets the theme.” a) Complication: conflict b) Protagonist: “good guy” c) Antagonist:…

out much, just from home to school and back home. I would also make their be a lot of chance happenings in the story “Keith” when converting it into a Shakespearean drama. Making these changes would work because they cause the story to be even more dramatic. In the short story “Keith” Keith and Brian would both be foil characters to each other. Brian likes to party and live…