Conflict
“Haply, for I am black and have not those soft parts of conversation that chamberers have” (Shakespeare 3.3. 267-268) Question:What type of conflict is present here?
internal
“Thus do I ever make my fool my purse” (Shakespeare 1.3. 374) Question for audience: What tone can be used to describe this?
Cynical or other variants
“Men should be what they seem; or those that are not, would they might seem none!” (Shakespeare 3.3. 132-133) Question for audience: Who is the speaker and what are they talking about?
Iago and he is talking about how dishonest people shouldn’t appear like they are honest.
Jealousy- “Oh, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the ( ) monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on” (Shakespeare 3.3.169-171) Question for audience: what adjective is used before “monster”
Green-eyed
“Oh, blood, blood, blood!” (Shakespeare 3.3. 458)
Question: Who is the speaker and what are they planning?
Othello, he is planning revenge on Desdemona and Cassio upon hearing of their "affair".
“She loved me for the dangers I had passed, and I loved her that she did pity them.” (Shakespeare 1.3. 168-169) Question for audience: What does this tone reveal about the nature of Othello and Desdemona’s relationship in the early acts
They were deeply in love and trusted each other.
“I fear the trust ( ) puts him in” (Shakespeare 2.3. 247). Question: Which character is the speaker referring to?
Othello
Prejudice - “an old black ram is tupping your white ewe” (Shakespeare 1.1.90-91) Question for audience: who is the speaker?
Iago
"O thou foul thief where hast thou stowed my daughter? Damned as thou art, thou hast ( ) her!” (Shakespeare 1.2. 64-65) Question: fill in the blank
Enchanted
“Look to her Moor, if thou hast eyes to see. She has deceived her father, and may thee” (Shakespeare 1.3.293-924) Question for audience: what other literary device supports the ominous mood in this statement?
Foreshadowing
Iago tells Othello, “I am your own forever,” pretending to be loyal. (Shakespeare 3.3. 486) Question for audience: what kind of literary device is shown here, since he actually plans Othello’s downfall?
Dramatic irony
Deception - “But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for ( ) to peck at. I am not what I am.” (Shakespeare 1.1. 66-67) Question for the audience: what noun is used in the blank?
Daws
“I have a pain a pain upon my forehead, here” (Shakespeare 3.3 289) Question: What literary device is used and what is its purpose?
This is an allusion. In Shakespeare’s day, cuckolds (men whose wives cheated on them) were imagined to have horns growing from their heads.
Revenge - “Hell and night must bring this monstrous birth to the world’s light” (Shakespeare 1.3. 392-393) Question for the audience: what other literary technique is present?
allusion, imagery or metaphor