Welcome to Monday, my clevernesses!
Since you are doing an analysis of a style model under timed conditions in class tomorrow (in the second half of the lesson - we are doing peer assessments on your Geoffrey monologue excerpts for the first part), it is important you get more practice at PEE analysis of monologues.
Before we do that, I would like to introduce another framework. It is one that is very important for monologues as it is the SOUND element of language: 'phonology'. This can be anything from techniques we already know like alliteration and onomatopoeia to the use of accent, to new terms you should check out now : prosody/paralinguistics (which can be body language but has sound-related aspects too - what are they?)
1) Find a monologue (it can be far too short for coursework for this task, so an audition piece is fine - google 'monologues').
2) Post some context (what do we need to know about the play before we read the extract/analysis), an extract you have chosen to look at closely, and a PEE analysis (remember to mention the audience and to use terminology, quotes, and a formal style). Your analysis should be two paragraphs, focussing on two different frameworks. You must look at the implicature (how we understand what isn't actually said). That is from the framework 'pragmatics' but it should never be in a separate paragraph, it should always be talked about in combination with lexis, discourse, grammar, phonology etc.
3) Read and comment on as many other blogs as possible. I do take note of the comments made by others and it is an important part of thinking critically about your own work and others' and in expressing feedback usefully and tactfully and really engaging with both the text and the analysis.
4) Work on grammar - post a comment on this blog if you find a good site.
5) Read the comments made on your blog. You could post a redraft of your analysis once you have seen some others, read the comments on yours and thought about how to improve.
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