Show:
Characters
Plot
Themes
Literary Devices
Quotations
100
This character is known as the Moor of Venice.
Who is the Othello?
100
This is the reason Othello, Iago, and Cassio go to Cyprus.
What is to defeat the Turkish army?
100
This emotion leads to destruction.
What is jealousy?
100
This is the literary device used in the line: "O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! / It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock / The meat it feeds on."
What is metaphor?
100
This is the speaker and the point in the play at which the quote is spoken: "I pray you, in your letters, / When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, / Speak of me as I am.... Then must you speak / Of one that loved not wisely, but too well."
What is Othello in his dying speech?
200
This character is strangled by Othello in her bed.
Who is Desdemona?
200
This is the reason Iago wants to ruin Othello's marriage.
What are rumors that Othello has slept with his wife Emilia?
200
This is what characters are compared to in order to show their basic instincts rather than civilized and normal behavior.
What is animals? (ex. black ram tupping your white ewe)
200
This is a speech made by a character that none of the other characters on stage can hear.
What is aside?
200
This is the speaker and the meaning of the following quote: "I will wear my heart upon my sleeve / For daws to peck at; I am not what I am."
What is Iago showing that he is going to act one way and think another (i.e. be deceptive)?
300
This character gets stabbed in the leg by Iago during a fight with Roderigo.
Who is Cassio?
300
This is the action that shocks Ludovico, making him remark upon how much Othello has changed.
What is slapping Desdemona?
300
This is the kind of imagery used to highlight the difference in skin color between Othello and Desdemona.
What is black and white imagery?
300
This object is a symbol, representing Desdemona's affection to Othello, representing a means of creating jealousy to Iago, and representing Cassio having another lover to Bianca.
What is the handkerchief embroidered with strawberries?
300
This is the speaker and what the quote means: "Then let them use us well; else let them know, / The ills we do, their ills instruct us so."
What is Emilia saying that husbands are at fault if their wives are unfaithful?
400
This character is convinced that Othello used magic to seduce Desdemona and get her to marry him.
Who is Brabantio?
400
This is the reason that Emilia says she would cheat on her husband.
What is to get him power?
400
This is one way that Othello is metaphorically blind in the play.
What is demanding visual proof of Desdemona's unfaithfulness, reading meaning into her actions with Cassio that isn't there, not seeing Iago's deceptiveness, refusing to believe Emilia's report that nothing was happening between Desdemona and Cassio.
400
This is the literary device used when we as the audience know that Iago is lying to Othello, but he believes that Iago is telling him the truth about Desdemona sleeping with Cassio.
What is dramatic irony?
400
This is the literary device used in the following quote: "Iago is most honest."
What is dramatic irony?
500
This character is the lord of Cyprus and was injured by Cassio in a fight when Cassio is drunk.
Who is Montano?
500
These are the characters left alive at the end of the play.
Who are Cassio, Iago, Ludovico (also Montano, Bianca, Gratiano)?
500
One of the main messages that this play shares with the modern audience is that relationships depend on what?
What is trust?
500
This is one of the characteristics of a tragic hero.
What is 1. noble birth 2. reversal of fortune 3. recognizing the consequences of one's actions 4. tragic flaw 5. making the audience pity or fear the protagonist
500
What does Roderigo's dying quotation show: "O damned Iago! O inhuman dog!"
What is his epiphany that Iago has been tricking and using him the whole time?