tone of the text

Success criteria

• By the end of this lesson, you will be able to:
• identify comic and tragic elements in texts 
• state 2 reasons why writers employ these elements 

Comedy

Purpose

characteristics

• Resolution at the end
• Main character attains what he wants
• Comic elements  
• [Identify comic elements in the Mr Bean clip]

Role Play

Tragedy

Tragedies

• Often ends in disaster or death
• Tragic hero
• Hero comes to an understanding of himself/world
• Sympathy for the hero

analyzing a tragedy

• Subject Matter e.g. war, death, evil, power
• Setting 
• Main problem (what tragic flaw surfaces?)
• Ending

Essay Practice