DRAMA PAPER GENERAL POINTS

Question 1

4 general things to remember with drama / plays

Answer 1

• How effective it is and why
• audience reaction
• look on stage / appearance
• stage direction portrays

Question 2

Prose shows (in drama / plays)

Answer 2

Natural and informal

Question 3

Verse shows (in drama / plays)

Answer 3

Unnatural / forced / fake

Formal

Question 4

What imagery Shakespeare uses (3)

Answer 4

Imagery:

• similes
• metaphors
• personification

Question 5

Things to remember / techniques / what to comment (write) about

Answer 5

Emotive
Rhetorical questions
Hints at ….
Paradox
Which emphasises ….
Playing on the double meaning
Plays in the meaning
Deliberately misinterprets (comedy)
Importance of …
Rhymed iambic pentameter

Question 6

Photo of note

Answer 6