Read the excerpt from act 1 of the monsters are due on maple street. charlie: that don't seem likely. sky's just as blue as anything. not a cloud. no lightning. no thunder. no nothing. how could it be a storm? which element of drama is highlighted in this piece of dialogue? a) character b) plot c) setting d) resolution

C) Setting.

Explanation: The setting of a story or a text is the place and time where the story takes place, it can also be the context of the story (political, historical, cultural, etc). In the given excerpt from "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street" we can see the description of the setting, specifficaly the weather and the condition of the sky (blue, with no clouds, no lightning and no thunder), so the correct answer is the corresponding to option C.

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themes and meanings

(comprehensive guide to drama)

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there are two central themes in  the miracle worker: that the human spirit can triumph over even the most daunting of disabilities and that a dedicated teacher can transform the lives of those with whom he or she comes into contact. these inspirational themes have long been personified in the widely known true-life relationship between helen keller and annie sullivan, but  the miracle worker  also dramatizes collateral issues that extend beyond the particular case. underlying helen’s process of learning basic principles of what annie terms “obedience” (decorum, etiquette, and hygiene), there are more universal lessons of self-governance—the inculcation of self-restraint instead of willfulness, the development of self-discipline instead of self-indulgence. only when these lessons have been mastered can helen begin to acquire language—which, annie says, “is to the mind more than light is to the eye.”