This is a funny or light-hearted scene in a tragedy that gives the audience a break from the play's intensity.
What is comic relief?
100
I have charged thee not to haunt about my doors. In honest plainness thou hast heard me say my daughter is not for thee.
Who is Brabantio?
100
This is what we call the weakness in personality that typically leads to the tragic hero's downfall.
What is the tragic flaw?
100
This is the coveted rank that Iago feels he deserves.
What is lieutenant?
100
If you want entertainment then never fear, just read a play written by ________.
Who is Shakespeare?
200
This is a statement spoken onstage in front of characters who are "unable" to hear those words.
What is an aside?
200
She loved me for the dangers I had passed, and I loved her that she did pity them.
Who is Othello?
200
The tragic hero is a person with this type of status in his society before his downfall.
What is elevated, great, admired, or good?
200
This is the character that Iago uses to start a fight with Cassio, in an effort to get Cassio fired.
Who is Roderigo?
200
Even though some people felt he was a menace, he turns out to be a well-respected general of ______.
What is Venice?
300
This is a contradictory statement that contains an element of truth.
What is a paradox?
300
I hate the Moor.
Who is Iago?
300
This is the Greek term that means "excessive pride."
What is hubris?
300
This character makes it easy for Iago to advance his plot by being overly demonstrative to the ladies.
Who is Cassio?
300
Some soldiers are admirable but some soldiers are jerks; everyone was proud when Othello defeated the _______.
Who are the Turks?
400
This is a play on words that have a similar sound or spelling.
What is a pun?
400
"How now, my lord?
I have been talking with a suitor here,
A man who languishes in your displeasure."
Who is Desdemona?
400
This is Othello's tragic flaw.
What is susceptibility to jealousy or also being too trusting?
400
Iago plans to use this gift to enrage Othello.
What is Desdemona's handkerchief?
400
Some people are very neat while others are sloppy. Cassio wants Bianca to take the gift and make him ________.
What is a copy?
500
This term refers to a lengthy speech by one character in which he or she relates thoughts and feelings that the audience otherwise would not have known.
What is soliloquy?
500
What handkerchief? Why, that the Moor first gave to Desdemona, that which so often you did bid me steal.
Who is Emilia?
500
This is the cleansing of tragic emotions that the audience experiences at the end of a tragedy.
What is catharsis?
500
Iago's plan relies on the fact that nearly all who encounter him believe him to be a kind and ______ man.
What is honest?
500
While Iago plots to make it seem Cassio loves Desdemona, Cassio himself shares his time and his heart with _______.