D RAMA •DramaͶstage plays, TV dramas, filmsͶis the literary genre which is the most like naturally occurring conversation, though it is not exactly the sameʹ conversations in plays, in films and on TV are designed ƚo be ͚oǀerheard͛by an audience, and this is only true for a small minority of naturally occurring dialogues. •Although somepoems have speakingpersonae, most are monologuesʹspoken by the author. •Novels typically contain talk between characters, and so they are a bit more like conversation, but they also contain large stretches of narrative description. •Drama, on the other hand, largely consists of character-to-character interaction. 2
