The exercise in class on Friday helped illustrate how different verbal and nonverbal cues can give meaning to a piece of literature or play. There are a wide range of emotions that can define a scene. When the actors exhibited emotion during the scene it was interpreted as a straightforward comedy scene, however when other actors approached the scene with little emotion, a sort of carelessness, it was as if the comedy snuck up on the audience, which made the scene much more entertaining. This exercise was great for the simple reason that we are all much more aware of how our emotions or expressions when speaking the language can affect how we interpret or understand it.