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Othello
Othello
The Inferno
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100
Had I as many mouths as Hydra, such an answer would stop them all.
What is allusion?
100
(Iago discussing why Cassio shouldn't have been promoted over himself) And what was he? Forsooth, a great arithmetician... that never set a squadron in the field, nor the division of a battle knows more than a spinster.... Mere prattle without practice is all his soldiership.
What is logos?
100
Just as a swimmer, still with panting breath, now safe upon the shore, out of the deep, might turn for one last look at the dangerous waters, so I, although my mind was turned to flee, turned round to gaze once more upon the pass that never let a living soul escape.
What is epic simile?
100
So this is how Noah felt. You wake up one morning and God has forgive you and you walk around squinting all day because you've forgotten how sunlight feels warm and rough against your skin... - Looking for Alaska
What is allusion?
200
(After getting Othello all worked up about Desdemona cheating) Iago - I see this hath a little dashed your spirits. Othello - Not a jot, not a jot.
What is understatement?
200
Iago - O grace! O heaven forgive me! Are you a man? Have you a soul or sense? God b' wi' you! Take mine office. O wretched fool, that lov'st to make thine honesty a vice! O monstrous world! Take note, take note, O world, to be direct and honest is not safe.
What is pathos?
200
Here sighs and cries and shrieks of lamentation...
What is assonance?
200
To what green alter, O mysterious priest, Lead'st thou that heifer lowing at the skies... - Ode on a Grecian Urn
What is apostrophe?
300
Cassio - Good night, honest Iago.
What is dramatic irony?
300
Iago - Three great ones of the city, in personal suit to make me his lieutenant, off-capped to him; and, by the faith of man, I know my price; I am worth no worse a place.
What is hubris?
300
They yearn for what they fear.
What is Antithesis?
300
I drove my weight on it from above and bored it home like a shipwright bores his beam with a shipwright’s drill that men below, whipping the strap back and forth, whirl and the drill keeps twisting, never stopping –So we seized our stake with it fiery tip and bored it round and round in the giant’s eye. -The Odyssey
What is Epic Simile?
400
Desdemona - O, heaven forgive us!
What is apostrophe?
400
(Iago and Othello approaching Desdemona and Cassio) Iago - Ha! I like noth that. Othello - What dost thou say? Iago - Nothing, my lord; or if - I know not what.
What is paralipsis?
400
Why are you such a coward in your heart, why aren't you bold and free of all your fear, when three such gracious ladies, who are blessed, watch out for you up there in Heaven's court, and my words, too, bring promise of such good?
What is Ethos?
400
I have to have this operation. It isn’t very serious. I have this tiny little tumor on the brain.-Catcher in the Rye
What is understatement?
500
Roderigo - What a full fortune does the thick-lips owe if he can carry't thus!
What is synecdoche?
500
After some time, to abuse Othello's ears...
What is metonymy?
500
I woke to find myself in a dark wood, // for I had wandered off from the straight path.
What is enjambment?
500
As he swung toward them holding up the hand Half in appeal, but half as if to keep The life from spilling... -Out, Out
What is metonymy?