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Questions

1. What are the unique features of drama that differentiate it from other

genres of literature?
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2. Why are the stage directions written in italics and/or in brackets?
3. What type of drama do you enjoy most, and why?
4. Do you like watching tragedies, comedies, tragic comedies or
melodramas? Why?

5. What is the importance of dramas or plays or films acted in Tanzania?
6. Drama gives life to a play, and without drama, a play is dead. Argue
for or against this claim.

(b) With the help of online or offline resources, use a selected play to explain the
following.

(i) Play (x) Character
(ii) Act (xi) Thought
(iii) Actors (xii) Spectacle
(iv) Scene (xiii) Diction
(v) Curtain (xiv) Music
(vi) Stage directions (xv) Light
(vii) Costume (xvi) Stage
(viii) Props (xvii) Setting
(ix) Actions

Poetry

(a) Read the following text and answer the questions that follow.

Poetry is a unique genre of literature. Poems use peculiar language and
presentation style. The poem’s content is very important. Poets may add extra
importance to the content of poems through the creative use of language and
the form she or he uses. Poems (like songs) are written in lines called verses.
A group of these lines is called a stanza. In traditional poetry, the lines of
poems ending were written with words with the same ending like beat/cheat
or decision/position). This line style ending gave poetry the so-called rhyme.

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