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A dialogue (sometimes spelled dialog) means spoken contact between two+ people (groups of people) When reported or imitated in writing, "dialogue" labels a form of literature used by Greeks and Indians for purposes of rhetorical entertainment and instruction. This form has scarcely been modified since the days of its birth. A literary dialogue comprise of drama in a sentence. It has long served writers who have something to censure or to impart, but who love to stand outside the pulpit, and to encourage others to pursue a train of thought which the author does not seem to do more than indicate. The dialogue expresses and notes down the undulations of human thought so spontaneously that it almost escapes analysis. Commonly, records of the alleged actual words spoken by living or imaginary people and it appears in a dialogued format. One branch of this form of expressive documentation, the drama, depends upon dialogue almost exclusively. Yet, in its technical sense, the word 'dialogue' describes what the Greek philosophers invented, and what the noblest of them lifted to the extreme refinement of an art. In the east, the genre dates back to the Sumerian dialogues and disputations (preserved in copies from the early second millennium b.c.e.), as well as Rigvedic dialogue hymns and the Indian epic Mahabharata, while in the west, literary historians commonly suppose that Plato (c. 427 BC - c. 347 BC) introduced the systematic use of dialogue as an independent literary form they point to his earliest experiment with the genre in the Laches. The Platonic dialogue, however, had its foundations in the mime, which the Sicilian poets Sophron and Epicharmus had cultivated half a century earlier. The works of these writers, which Plato admired and imitated, have not survived, but scholars imagine them as little plays usually presented with only two performers. The Mimes of Herodas give us some idea of their scope.
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How to Spice up Your Writing with Dialogue
by Judy Cullins
Jan 26, 2007
Does your chapter sound like a report? Does it go on and on with past tense sentences that tell, rather than show?
To spice up your self help, non-fiction or fiction book and even promotional writing, you need to use much more dialogue.
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