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What is the definition of an allegory?
What is a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning?
The amount of wives and how much land to farm yams a man has is a symbol of what?
What is masculinity and status?
When Iago says, "My lord, you know, I love you.", what type of irony is being displayed?
What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor?
What are similes use the words like or as to compare things whereas metaphors directly state a comparison?
What is an exaggerated statement or claim not meant to be taken literally?
What kind of irony is presented through the important man, Okonkwo, committing suicide?
What is situational irony?
What does the handkerchief symbolize when Othello first gives it to Desdemona?
What is it represents his loyalty, sexually and romantically?
What is the difference between dramatic and verbal irony?
Damatic Irony is when the audience is aware of something a character is not, whereas verbal irony is where the speaker says one thing but means another.
What is the definition of juxtaposition?
What is an act or instance of placing close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast?
What does the white man demasking the egwugwu symbolize?
What is the loss of Umuofia's culture?
The audience knowing Iago's plan when Othello and other characters don't is an example of?
What is Dramatic Irony?
What are Desdemona's hankercheif and the yams in Things Fall Apart considered to be?
What is symbols.
What is the definition of direct narration?
What is speech quoted in the exact words of the speaker?
What is the type of literary device explored by comparing and contrasting masculinity and femininity?
What is juxtaposition?
What are the comparisons and differences between Venice and Cyprus an example of?
What is juxtaposition?
What is an otherworldy and spiritualistic motif that appears in Othello and Things Fall Apart?
What is religion?
What is the definition of syntax?
What are the rules that govern the ways in which words combine to form phrases, clauses, and sentences?
The use of excessive imagrey and personification when it comes to nature is to do what?
What is to emphasize the pagan spiritualism?
Why does Iago reference Othello with animalistic imagery? ex:"...the old black ram..."
What is to renforce racial conflict and Othello's 'otherness'?
What is the difference between syntax and diction?
What is syntax is sentence structure, whereas diction is the authors writing style?