The Freytag Pyramid

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi4p5Mwr1Zg

SAMPLE Exam Questions for PAPER 2 Drama Section

Answer one essay question only. You must base your answer on at least two of the Part 3 works you have studied and compare and contrast these works in response to the question. Answers which are not based on a discussion of at least two Part 3 works will not score high marks.
(Any two of these 4 texts: Amadeus, The Crucible, Master Harold, Romeo and Juliet.)

Time SL 90 minutes and HL 2 hours.

Note you are advised to spend 20 minutes making a bullet point plan for your essay.

Essays should have a clear logical structure with an introduction/development/conclusion.

SL papers will average about 4 sides to 6 sides of handwritten work.

HL papers will average about 6 to 8 sides of handwritten work.

(This will depend on the size of your handwriting.)

Skip a line between paragraphs and write neatly and legibly.

Drama

1.

Explore the ways in which dramatists have made use of monologues and/or soliloquies in at least two plays you have studied.

2.

Plays employ various kinds of structural divisions such as prologues and epilogues, act and scene

divisions, even carefully placed intermissions. Discuss the dramatic uses made of these divisions in

at least two plays you have studied.

3.

“A play should make you laugh or should make you cry.”

With reference to at least two plays you have studied, discuss the methods playwrights use to generate emotional response in their audiences.
4.
Compare and contrast the ways in which dramatists have made use of stage directions to increase the dramatic impact of the play on the audience. Discuss at least two plays you have studied.

Extra Classes Tuesday and Wednesday - all students -books needed in class

Extra classes - "Amadeus" and "The Crucible" - Exam preparation.
TUESDAY April 2nd
Grade 12: English SL/HL Extra Class 02:00 p.m. to 05:00 p.m.
WEDNESDAY April 3rd
Grade 12: English SL/HL Extra Class 09:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon

 

Plays are written for the stage, not the page. - EXCELLENT WEB PAGE FOR DRAMA ESSAYS

http://www.englishbiz.co.uk/mainguides/play.htm


http://suchislife.wikispaces.com/file/view/amadeus.pdf 

"To A Child Dancing In The Wind"-WB Yeats-Irish Poetry-Poetry Reading-Ro...

TO A CHILD DANCING IN THE WIND by: W. B. Yeats (1865-1939)

ANCE there upon the shore;

What need have you to care

For wind or water's roar?

And tumble out your hair

That the salt drops have wet;

Being young you have not known

The fool's triumph, nor yet

Love lost as soon as won,

Nor the best labourer dead

And all the sheaves to bind.

What need have you to dread

The monstrous crying of wind?

Yeats Second Coming (Lecture)

The Second Coming

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand. The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds. The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

AMADEUS: Salieri's describes Mozart's music "The Voice of God"