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Writing Workshop 9 (continued)
Term
entertaining language and humorous situations intended to make the audience laugh
“Since night you loved; yet since night you left me:”
“Now follow, if thou darest, to try whose right, / Of thine or mine, is most in Helena.”
“I do hate thee and love Helena”
“My legs are longer though, to run away.”
EXIT LYSANDER and DEMETRIUS HERMIA: (accusingly) “What, with
Lysander?”
HERMIA: (shoving Helena) “Why, get you gone”
LYSANDER: (shaking his fist and baring his teeth) “Demetrius, I will keep my word with thee.”
“vile thing”
“because I am so dwarfish and so low” “Out, loathed medicine!
“Get you gone, you dwarf; / You minimus, of hindering knot-grass made”
8 SpringBoard® Writing Workshop with Grammar Activities Grade 8
Definition
Examples
Plot
exposition
background information provided at the beginning of a story; in a script, this is conveyed by dialogue or by a narrator
conflict
a struggle between opposing forces, can be internal (a character struggling with conflicting desires) or external
(a character struggling with another character or force)
complications
events that develop the plot of a story and lead to a climax or turning point in the conflict
resolution
the part of the plot that concludes the action by suggesting or revealing the outcome of the conflict
Performance Elements
stage directions
instructions for the actor or director provided in parentheses and/or italics
tone
the emotion or attitude with which the actor should deliver the line
blocking
the movement and placement of characters as they speak
gestures
the movement of a part of the body, especially, a hand or the head, to express an idea or meaning
Audience Engagement
diction
word choice that helps convey character and tone
imagery
details and descriptions that appeal to or evoke one or more of the five senses
mood
the emotions the writer and director intends for the audience to feel during a performance
comedy
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