City of Gold (Monologue) (VCE SSCE English): Flashcards

Theatre combining rhetoric & physicality to challenge injustice

Speaking directly to audience, not staying in scene

Using raw, honest expression as a tool of resistance

Repetition of words/phrases at start of successive clauses

Asking a question then immediately answering it yourself

Juxtaposition of contrasting ideas to highlight difference

Moving between languages, dialects, or registers in speech

Physical gestures & movements conveying/reinforcing messages

Turns listeners into accused; forces complicity recognition

Rhetorical & dramatic techniques amplifying each other