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9.4.1 Play: Style (Class Reader)

English · Grade 9 · 2 lessons in the design

What this covers

  • Features of style in a play: flashback, flash-forward and personification
  • The role of memories, dreams and a story within a story
  • Dramatising events and hot seating a character

What you will be able to do

  • identify features of style used in a play
  • relate features of style to the meaning of a play
  • acknowledge the importance of stylistic features in literary appreciation

Key questions

“Why do authors use flashback, flash-forward and personification in plays?”

Lessons

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  1. Style on the stage
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Identify flashback, flash-forward and personification in a play and say why the writer uses them.
  2. Time, voice and hot seating
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Follow the time order of a play and use hot seating to explore a character in role.