Analyzing Dialogue

What purpose can dialogue serve?

• it can reveal characters' personality traits, feelings, thoughts, and/or motives

• it can communicate the moral of the story.

• it can describe secrets to the reader through detailed descriptions.

• it can reveal how characters interact through lengthy conversations involving dull moments in everyday life situations.

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What is to analyze?

• To portray fictional or non-fictional events or representations through dialogue and performance. It is one of the literary genres that imitates some action. it is also a play written for theater, television, radio, and film.

•  To separate ideas or things into constituent parts, determine how elements relate, differentiate between what is essential or not, and distinguish and examine carefully in detail to identify causes, key factors, or results.

• To disclose or show undisclosed information.

• To come into conclusion or judgment reached after consideration.

   

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WHAT IS DIALOGUE?

• Conversation between among Characters

  How

• None of the above

• When the main character is unknown

• A conflict between two character

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How does dialogue move the story forward?

• It creates questions in the reader's mind.

• It provides the reader with necessary information

• It can enhance connections with the reader.

• It shows how a person's words can motivate another

  person to act

• All of the above

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What important question should we ask ourselves when

analyzing dialogue?

• Is it part of the story?

• What purpose does it serve?

• Is it exciting?

• Is it enough?

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Why is it important for a writer to choose

words and lines of dialogue carefully?

• Long conversations back and forth is better

• brief dialogue is more effective

• It can establish a strong voice for each character

• It makes the characters seem smarter

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What can dialogue reveal about a character?

• Thoughts, feeling and motivations

• Where and when the story takes place

• Rising and falling action

• Resolution of the conflict

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Lines of dialogue can____

• Show how characters interact with each other

• Tell how characters look

• Provide text features

• Enhance setting

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Select the correct sentence that avoid unnecessary, distracting or absurd dialogue tags

• ‘Hello,’ I said.‘Is it really you? I can’t believe it’s been so long,’ she said.‘Sorry I’ve been such a hermit’, I said, smiling.

• Hello.’She gave a start, surprised. ‘Is is really you? I can’t believe it’s been so long!’‘Sorry I’ve been such a hermit,’ I said, smiling.

Answer explanation

The placement and repetition of ‘said’ in the first sentence has a deadening, unnatural effect.

The second allows us to focus our attention more on the content of what characters say (and less on the fact that we’re reading dialogue).

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What does this dialogue reveal?

DUNCAN: No more that thane of Cawdor shall deceive

Our bosom interest: go pronounce his present death,

And with his former title greet Macbeth.

ROSS: I'll see it done.

DUNCAN: What he hath lost noble Macbeth hath won. (ACT I scene il)

• In this scenegue dialogue reveals that the former thane of Cawdor will be executed for treason,

  and Macbeth will be given his lands and title.

• In this scene, dialogue reveals that the former thane of Cawdor will not be executed for treason,

  and Macbeth will not be given his lands and title.

• In this scene, dialogue reveals that the former thane of Cawdor get awarded with land

  and Macbeth will be executed

• None of the above

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