Dramatic Monologue

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IRONY

Group 4
• Ahmad Fauzi b. Mohamadiah
• Akashah b. Osman
• Hani Syazwani bt Abd Ghani
• Ng Pin Ting
Dramatic Monologue
•a piece of performed writing that offers great
insight into the feelings of the speaker. Not to be
confused with a soliloquy in a play (which the
character speaking speaks to themselves),
dramatic monologues suggest an auditor or
auditors

•to include short pieces of prose written for

performance
 A single person, who
is patently not the
poet utters the speech
that makes up whole
of the poem, in a
specific critical
moment

Features
The main principle
controlling the poet’s The person addresses
choice and and interacts with one
formulation of what or more other people;
the lyric speaker says but we know the
is to reveal to the auditor’s presence and
reader that, in a way what they say and do,
that enhances its only from the clues of
interest, the speaker’s the discourse of single
temperament and speaker
character.
 Dramatic

Types of
Monologues

Comedic Shakespearean
 Example
•MACBETH: Is this a dagger which I see
before me, The handle toward my hand?
Come, let me clutch thee! I have thee
not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not,
fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to
sight? or art thou but A dagger of the
mind, a false creation Proceeding from
the heat-oppressèd brain?
 IRONY
DEFINITION

In literature, it is a technique of
indicating, as through character or plot
development, an intention or attitude
opposite to that which is actually or
ostensibly stated.
This is a relatively modern use of the term,
and describes a discrepancy between the
expected result and actual results when
Situational
enlivened by perverse appropriateness. irony

it means that the Types

reader/watcher/listener knows
something that one or more of the
characters in the piece is not aware of.
of Irony

Dramatic Verbal
irony irony
a statement in which the meaning that a
speaker employs is sharply different from the
meaning that is ostensibly expressed.
 Use of Irony
Situational Irony

• In The Unauthorized Autobiography of Lemony Snicket,

"The day was as normal as a group of seals with wings
Verbal Irony riding around on unicycles, assuming that you lived
someplace where that was very normal."

• In Forrest Gump, the audience knows the historical

Dramatic irony
significance of the characters and scenarios Forrest
Gump finds himself in, but he often does not
REFERENCES
• http://www.thefreedictionary.com/dramatic+monologue
• http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/glossaryIte
m.do?id=8072
• http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_are_the_key_features
_for_a_dramatic_monologue
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dramatic_monologue
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVPwoj2b6iE
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNa4EMUWnAc