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Scene is the "psychological setting" or "cultural definition" of a setting, including characteristics such as range of formality and sense of play or seriousness. [21] The family story may be told at a reunion celebrating the grandparents' anniversary. At times, the family would be festive and playful; at other times, serious and commemorative.
In a book review for Spenser Studies, the critic Roger Kuin commended editor Alexander's thorough work in making accessible a literary text of ‘incalculable value’ to scholars and students of English Renaissance literature: ‘for anyone working, in any way, with the literature and the literary scene of the sixteenth century’s last two or ...
Dramatic verse occurs in a dramatic work, such as a play, composed in poetic form.The tradition of dramatic verse extends at least as far back as ancient Greece.. The English Renaissance saw the height of dramatic verse in the English-speaking world, with playwrights including Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare developing new techniques, both for dramatic structure and ...
Cinepoetry: Imaginary Cinemas in French Poetry (Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics) by Christophe Wall-romana Cinepoems and others by Benjamin Fondane Scenario's Charm(シナリオの魅力 Shinario No Miryoku ) by Fuyuhiko Kitagawa
Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
A play may have a brief play within it, such as in Shakespeare's play Hamlet; a film may show the characters watching a short film; or a novel may contain a short story within the novel. A story within a story can be used in all types of narration including poems , and songs .
This strategy encourages students to interact with a text and challenges them to take on the perspective of a character. Extended role play: Students may create the scene that takes place before or after a story or scene. This strategy helps students to predict and theorize about cause and effect. Hotseat: The student is interviewed in character.
The turn in poetry has gone by many names. In "The Poem in Countermotion", the final chapter of How Does a Poem Mean?, John Ciardi speaks thus of the "fulcrum" in relation to the non-sonnet poem "O western wind" (O Western Wind/when wilt thou blow/The small rain down can rain//Christ! my love were in my arms/and I in my bed again): 'The first two lines are a cry of anguish to the western wind ...