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Characters
Plot
Themes
Literary Devices/Rhetoric
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? OR he is angry with Othello for not giving him the promotion.
200
This is what characters are often 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 Lodovico, making him remark upon how much Othello has changed.
What is slapping Desdemona?
300
This is what the term misogyny means
What is the hatred of females.
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: "Come on, come on; you are pictures out of doors, saints in your injuries, devils being offended, players in your housewifery, and housewives in your beds."
What is Iago telling Emilia that women are nothing more than something nice to look at, are gossipy, play innocent yet have darker intentions, and should only be concerned with cleaning and pleasing their husbands.
400
This character is convinced that Othello used magic to seduce Desdemona and get her to marry him.
Who is Brabantio?
400
When Iago says this: "O, beware, my lord of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on." This is what he is saying:
What is jealousy is a heartless beast that can turn people crazy.
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 by Othello: "Iago is most honest."
What is dramatic irony?
500
This character is known as one of the best villians in literature
Who is Iago
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
These are the 3 rhetorical appeals
What are logos, pathos, and ethos
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?