writing about literature will let you exercise your critical thinking skills like no other style of writing will.
I agree with this because writing in your personal style and allows others to read in many different styles from many authors.
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What if literature has just evolved from sonnets and novels to tweets and memes?
I feel like teens would enjoy literature way more but wouldn't take it seriously. It wouldn't help with reading skills as memes and brainrot contain slang most of the time.
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Most of our reading and writing is done on the internet: in the forms of Facebook posts, memes, tweets, snapchats, Tik Tok videos, and viral news.
I think many of us use social media more because it is written or spoken in a way that we like to read it, many of us see books or texts as too long or boring.
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fewer people are reading literature than ever.
This is a problem because people should read to maintain their reading skills. Not reading and being focused on social media more is bad.
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The theme is the main idea, lesson, or message in the novel.
There can be one or more themes in a story and they relay important lessons, mainly life lessons.
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Point of view: whose eyes the story is being told through.
A play or story can be told through man perspectives such as one character, through a narrator or even multiple characters at one time.
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What role does setting play in the story?
The setting can be a huge factor when finding the theme, it is important to any part of the story.
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“who, what, when, where, how?”
One of the many methods in finding the stories, theme, plot, setting and characters.
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the most important characters are listed first. Think most spoken lines, protagonists, antagonists, etc
This helps the audience with knowing which characters are the most important and who they should pay a little more attention to
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Usually it will still have some kind of numbering system so that actors, directors, and readers can find their place.
The numbering system is a very easy and smooth way to find ones place in the dialogue. It also makes it easy to find a certain place on the page by using the numbers.
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Not all plays or even tragedies follow this structure exactly. That being said, it can be helpful to analyze the ways in which a plot's structure is formed, as this can reveal deeper meanings.
Reveals and notes that all plays are different and that these are one of the many structures that a play can follow. This structure allows to show a play or tragedies deeper meaning by breaking it down.
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