2) VERBAL EXPRESSION (a)

It can be divided into dialogue and monologue (or soliloquy).

DIALOGUE is the heart of dramas and the engine of their plots. The whole story is conveyed through dialogue: the actors become the narrators who, with their speech, also create the setting and the circumstances.

It conveys useful information about the characters themselves, the setting, the time and sets the right atmosphere for the audience (that is particularly true in Elizabethan dramas where the scenery was very poor and symbolic).

It usually follows the model of real life conversation, but it may also have rhetorical and poetic features.