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Content for
Cornell NotesIntroduction to
The Diary of Anne FrankPlay
Mrs. Fields
Language Arts Class
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Key Vocabulary
Bias
Discriminate
euthanasia
Gestapo
Holocaust
Irrational
Jew/Jude
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Key Vocabulary
National Socialist/Nazi
Prejudice
Propaganda
Racism
Scapegoat
Stereotype
Westerbork
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Elements of Drama:Basic Dramatic Principles
Exposition (Background Information)
introduces the characters, setting, and basic situation
Initial Conflict
struggle, main problem
Complications (Rising Action)
disagreements, additional problems
Climax moment of greatest interest or suspense; the turning point
Denouement (Resolution)
how the play ends (final act)
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Elements of Drama Act and Scene:
Dramas are divided into acts and scenes. Acts and scenesare important because they organize and add dramaticemphasis to a story. In live performance you can identify ascene by a brief break in the story or blackout on the stage.Breaks between acts are much longer and often presentmajor changes when the story resumes.
Act
A major division of a drama that usually focuses on onepiece of the plot or theme of the play.
Acts are divided into scenes (similar to chapters in a book).
Scene
Presents action in one place or situation.
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Elements of Drama
Stage Directions:
Stage directions are the instructions written into
the script of a play that describe the characters,
sets, costumes, and lighting.
They give the readers insight into what the author
intends for the visual aspects of settings and
specific actions. Stage directions appear in italics offset by
brackets.
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Elements of Drama Irony: occurs when there is a difference between
what is expected and what actually happens in a shortstory, poem, or play. Situational irony
An author creates situational irony when a character expects aparticular outcome, but the opposite occurs.
Dramatic irony An author creates dramatic irony when the reader or audience has
important information that the character or characters do not have. For example, dramatic irony may result when a character lacks self-
awareness and acts according to false ideas.
How is the play, The Diary of Anne Frank anexample of dramatic irony?
We (audience/readers) know that Anne and the others will notsurvive.
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Elements of Drama
Flashback:
An interruption in the present action to show
events that happened at an earlier time.
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Characters in Crisis (Conflict):
Every play centers on a crisis, a situation of danger ordifficulty that places something of great value at risk: life,love, family, and pride, anything that is precious to them.
The crisis may arise because the characters want something for
which they must struggle with someone else (external conflict)or with themselves (internal conflict).
The crisis may also arise because the characters want toremove a threat to their safety or happiness.
Character cannot avoid the situation and must stay and face the threat =external conflict
Character chooses to avoid the threat = internal conflict
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Making a Change (Characterization):
Most plays are about change, both in characters and
in their relationships.
In The Diary of Anne Frankboth dynamic and static
characters exist.
These changes come about as the characters work out
their conflicts.
In The Diary of Anne Frank, we see several of thecharacters change as a result, some becoming wiser and
more generous, others pettier and more self-centered.