Dramatic Devices

Question 1

What language technique is also a dramatic method?

Answer 1

Metaphors, extended metaphors and motifs.

Question 2

What dramatic method is the mistaken use of a word in replace of a similar sounding one?

Answer 2

A malapropism.

Question 3

What dramatic method means that the playwrite is drawing attention to the form of the text?

Answer 3

Meta-theatre.

Question 4

How is the delivery of a line a dramatic method?

Answer 4

The author’s intended delivery of a line can draw attention to certain words.
E.g Sir Toby : “Care is an enemy to life.” monosyllabic sentence with a three-syllable word. Draws attention to that word.

Question 5

What dramatic method is the juxtaposition of reality with what is said?

Answer 5

Irony

Question 6

What dramatic method allows the audience to be aware of information unknown by characters?

Answer 6

Dramatic Irony

Question 7

What dramatic method allows for a character to speak directly to the audience and be unheard by others?

Answer 7

Asides

Question 8

What dramatic method allows the writer to represent ideas and qualities through motifs, symbols, devices etc.

Answer 8

Symbolism