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Dramatic narrative rhythm is the playwrights rhythmic treatment of all the elements of drama.Such rhythm is achieved through the playwrights arrangement of his/her works acts and scenes,conflicts and clashes, and development of its characters emotions and affections.The dramas acts and scenes may be rendered undulating, conflicts and clashes stirring, and its characters emotions and affections full of ups and downs.But drama is an art of dialogue.Unlike in novels where the novelist may directly describe the novels actions and events, and comment on characters or editorialize rather freely, in drama, the playwright has to reveal characters and their conflicts/clashes — that is, he/she has to let characters dramatize the kind of people they are and the kind of events they are engaged in by their own words and actions.So dramatic narratives have to be presented through the playwrights designing of the plot and the characters acting and conversing, forming the rhythmic movement of tense or relaxed, sad or happy communication between the dramas narrative curve and the reader/audiences emotional response.Thus we have to look at dramatic narrative rhythm from two respects: one, structural rhythm, and two, dialogical rhythm.