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M S. R H OAD E S AN D M R. K E LL E Y
What genre is A
Raisin in the Sun?
A
play!
What makes reading
a play different from
reading a novel?
1. Plays are meant to be performed for an audience
and not only read.
So it is important when only reading a play to think about
HOW the play would be performed. So how the actors would
move around on stage as well as how the actors would say
their lines.
2. A lot of plays do not have a narrator like a
novel does, and if a play does, it is a different
character than the protagonist and/or
antagonist.
The narrator in this play is not actually a narrator,
those are called stage directions.
intonation of a phase.
For example: high tone, low tone, mid tone, falling tone, or low-rising tone.