Oral Interpretation

The art of communicating works of literature by reading aloud well.

• Monologue

• Scoring

• Informative Speech

• Oral Interpretation

The birthplace of Oral Interpretation.

• Ancient Rome

• Ancient Egypt

• Ancient Greece

RHAPSODES

• People who measure the rhythm in a line of poetry

• WANDERING PERFORMERS WHO WOULD ASSEMBLE TO READ THEIR WORKS IN PUBLIC COMPETITION

• the narrator

• the study of oral interpretation

The following are ways to Select Material for an Interpretive Reading, EXCEPT:

• Choose something that you enjoy reading

• Don't consider the occasion and the audience

• Make sure what you choose has quality

Match the following

• monologue

• Interpreting prose

• Determine who the persona is

• Rhythm

• The narrator is all-knowing and moves freely into the minds and thoughts of all of the characters.

• Rhyme

• repetition of sounds between words or syllables or the endings of lines of verse

• FIRST PERSON NARRATION

• flow of stressed and unstressed syllables

• OMNISCIENT

Pause

• //

• /

• ///

• .

Get louder

• <

• >

• ~

• '

Match the following

• Pause and change of thought

• ~

• get faster

• '

• Get slower

• ///

• Get louder

• //

• Major Pause and shift in the play or scene

• <

Match the following

• comma

• take a breath

• colon

• a list is coming / something very important to the character

• ellipse

• pause or possible change of thought

• dash

• character is unsure

• period

• interruption or important to the character

To ____ the text is to mark the script.