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Writing Workshop 9 (continued)
10 SpringBoard® Writing Workshop with Grammar Activities Grade 8
Check Your Understanding
5. After you have completed this process, read over the script that your class
has created. Refer to the Scoring Guide to help determine how well the script meets the criteria for this assignment. Next, consider the following: • How did we convey characterization through dialogue and/or narration? • How did we use dialogue and stage directions to convey relationships? • How did we establish and convey setting?
• Did our script have a clear beginning, middle, and end?
• How did we provide exposition?
• What was our conflict, and how did we resolve it?
• How did our complications build toward a climax or turning point?
• How did we use stage directions or dialogue cues to enhance the
performance by informing tone, blocking, and gestures?
• Did we follow the conventions of script writing, including punctuation
of dialogue?
• How did we use diction, imagery and other techniques to create a mood,
convey humor, and engage our audience?
Revising for Language and Writer’s Craft
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE: Using similes, metaphors, and hyperbole can help convey emotions and humor in a script. Consider how Shakespeare uses figurative language in Lysander’s opening line of dialogue at the beginning of the script excerpt:
LYSANDER: Hang off, thou cat, thou burr! vile thing, let loose, Or I will shake thee from me like a serpent!
6. Lysander uses metaphors when he refers to Hermia as a cat and a burr. What do these comparisons say about how he feels about Hermia? Possible response: Lysander feels like she is clinging to him in an annoying manner, the way a cat clings with its claws, or a burr with its tiny hooks.
7. Lysander uses a simile when he says he will shake Hermia from him like a serpent. What does this comparison say about how he feels about Hermia?
Possible response: Because snakes are often poisonous or viewed with disgust, he is emphasizing his feelings of revulsion towards Hermia.
8. Find another line of dialogue that uses metaphor or simile and explain its effect.
Possible response: “Out, loathed medicine!” Lysander is comparing Hermia to a distasteful medicine, which not only emphasizes his hatred of her, but also makes Lysander seem immature, like a little kid who complains about taking medicine.
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