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Chapter 16 Oral Interpretation

VOCABULARY

1. Character placement –

2. Characterization –

3. Offstage focus –

4. Showmanship –

5. Word color –

QUESTIONS

1. In oral Interpretation, what do you try create instead of impersonating a voice?

2. What is the art of communicating works of literature by reading aloud well?

3. Literature was passed down from generation to generation orally before what was used?

4. What are rhapsodes?

5. When you are assigned to give an oral interpretation what is your first problem ?

6. What books include literary works by subject matter?

7. Why must you consider the quality of the literature when choosing it for oral interpretation?

8. What must you do first to interpret a selection well?

9 - 10.What 2 things are important in the process of analysis?

11. The dictionary definition or explicit meaning of a word is called?

12. What is the implied meanings of words called?

13. What is putting ideas of a piece of work into your own words if it is too long called?

14. What are themes?

15. What do you call a particular feeling in a piece of literary work?

16. What kind of monologue has a single character speaking?

17. What happens in an interior monologue?

18. What is a word for all-knowing?

19. What does meter do in poetry?

20. What is rhythm?

21. What is a repetition of sounds between words or syllables or the endings of lines of verse?

22.-24 What are the 3 requirements about writing an introduction for an oral interpretation?

25-29. What 5 skills will improve your effectiveness as a reader?

WHAT PERSON FITS EACH QUOTE?

30. “Do not go gentle into that good night.”

31. “Sweet lovers love the spring

32. “Success is counted sweetest/by those who ne’er succeed”

33. “I have measured out my life in coffee spoons”

34. “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation”