Modern prose or drama study

What you'll learn

1. 1

   Imagine you're a detective looking at a scene from a play or story 🕵️. Every line of dialogue or description is a clue about what the author really means.

2. 2

   When you study a play or story, what are you mostly looking for?

3. 3

   Drag the key quotes from 'Romeo and Juliet' into the right category: 'shows love' or 'shows conflict'.

4. 4

   Let's analyse one line from 'An Inspector Calls' together. The Inspector says: 'We are members of one body.'

5. 5

   What does the Inspector's line 'We are members of one body' suggest?

6. 6

   Now you try — drag the techniques to match the effect in this line from 'Macbeth': 'Is this a dagger which I see before me?'

7. 7

   In 'Macbeth', the dagger is a symbol. What does it most likely represent?