How to memorize a monologue quickly?

Question

I have a presentation on Tuesday, and I have the weekend to memorizet this part. Help!!!

Answer 1

This is what works for me when I have to memorize something long. Read the entire thing over and over. Practice saying the whole thing from memory. Don't do it in parts though, you'll tend to forget what comes after the next part when it comes time to recite. You have a better chance of it going smoothly if you do it all at one time instead of breaking it into parts. Try reading aloud, too. The combination of hearing it and reading it can help you remember it.

Answer 2

How To Quickly Memorize

Answer 3

You'll be great! Confidence is the first step. It helps to be alone and read it outloud many times then try to break it up into sections. Create pictures in your mind as you read and follow those. If you are a visual learner it will guide you. Really be sure that you know what the monologue means and the message the person is trying to convey. This way if you mess up you won't get flustered and you can improv your way through it! You have 4 days including today that's ample amount of time, I'm sure you'll be great!

Answer 4

When I have to memorize a monologue, I read the whole thing out loud five or so times, then break it down into paragraphs. I start by reciting one paragraph until I have it perfectly. Then I add the next paragraph and do both until I can do them perfectly, and so on.

You should be able to get it done this way by Tuesday.

Answer 5

Different people memorize differently. Here are some different techniques.

Read it over and over and over and over. Outloud is probably best.

Read a line - and then commit it to memory. Then two lines. As you're reciting them - cover them with a peice of paper and see if you can say them perfectly.

After you think you know them - hand them to somebody - and ask them to "hold book" for you. See if you know them. Note the parts you stumble on and work with them.

Monologues are harder than dialogue because you get no ques. But you can break it down according to thoughts the character is having and know the order of the thoughts. the end of one section can be the que for the next section. And you can use association memory that way. Perhaps one section ends by saying "Your mother never liked me." and the next section begins by saying "That hotel we stayed in last week was crap" - You can associate something in those to lines - so you will remember what comes next. Maybe you can picture your Mother going into a hotel. Or maybe you would NEVER stay in a crappy hotel. Whatever works for you. Sometimes its just the letters or phonetic sounds that you can relate to each other.

Record it onto a tape and then listen to it over and over and start reciting along with it. Turn the tape off and see if you know it.

Type it. Over and over. Then try to type it from memory. Then recite it from memory.

Hope one of these things will work for you!! Break a leg!!

Answer 6

Read it for the first time aloud and in front of a handheld recorder, make sure you intonate and pronounce it well for the first time... the rest is all about rew and play! Listen to it over and over, and you'll learn it by heart within an afternoon. Good Luck!

Answer 7

Well I try to memorize a sentance at a time. I was Beth(Narrorater) in Best Cristmas Pageant Ever at a local theatre. Hope this helps. Yes i am a kid.

Answer 8

My daughter once told me she read somewhere that something must be repeated 23 times to be remember forever. Kind of sets it in your brain I guess.?? So the answer would be repetition maybe?? Dunno.
If I am interested in something I can remember it by hearing, reading it once or twice at most. If it's "dry" I may have to go along with her 23 times thing.
I can remember songs faster than something in a book, newspaper, etc. Must be the music that helps.
Can also use word association to help "prompt" you.