Style (Grade 12 NSC Matric English FAL): Flashcards

Character speaks alone on stage, shares private thoughts w/ audience

Conversations between characters that move story forwards

Poetry with iambic pentameter rhythm but no rhyme

Five pairs of syllables, emphasis on every second syllable

Two consecutive lines ending with words that sound similar

Audience has knowledge that characters in the play lack

Emotions conveyed through language choices & actor delivery

Overall emotional atmosphere created on stage

Exposition, Rising action, Climax, Falling action, Denouement

Setting, character movement, props, actions, asides