Week 8 - The America Play

Techniques

Dialogue

  • non-linear narrative

  • presentational dialogue


Repetition

  • call and response - echoing with differences

  • repetition and revision - jazz aesthetic, African American literary traditions

  • rest/pause


Address to the reader

  • call and response


Contexts

  • the opening lines of The America Play are all examples of ‘chiasmus’, a rhetorical device in which words or concepts are repeated in reverse order.