introduction to anne frank play with vocab

7/29/2019 Introduction to Anne Frank Play with Vocab

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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.

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