English Othello Flashcards
1A Q1 OR
An old black ram tupping your white ewe
Technique - Animalistic symbolism - dehumanise othello
Iago telling Desdemona’s father about his thoughts
1A Q2 OR
Quote 2 - Thick lips
Technique - Racial epithet - racially prejudice loaded language
Rodrigo talking with Iago referring to Othello
1A Q3 OR
O, the more angel she, And You the blacker devil
Emelia after finding out Othello killed Desdemona
Technique - Antithesis - contrast the devil and the angle
1B Q1 NR
Where’d he come from? The jungle!
Technique - Metonymy - Used to symbolise stereotypical concepts conveying savagery
Onlooking boys talking about Osei
1B Q2 NR
Get down from their ni**er
Technique - Brabant used as a allegorical figure + harsh dysphemism
Mr brabant shouting at Osei at the final climactic scene
2A Q1 OG
Let husbands know Their wives have sense like them… they see, and smell, And have their palates both for sweet and sour
Technique - Parallelism - the syntaxical structure conveys the idea that women want the same as men
Emelia says to Desdamona while talking about women’s roles
2A Q2 OG
Nobody; I myself, farwell
Technique - Ellipsis and brevity - short words showing her imminent death further hightining the effect of her denial of Othello’s crime
Desdemona in her final scene as she dies
2B Q1 NG
Why is Dee lying to you? Ian is the only one who has the decency to be honest with me.
Technique - Rhetorical question and dramatic irony - used to show that Osei does not see credibility in Dee’s words due to her gender, but places deep trust in Ian for being male.
Ian and Osei talking about Dee
2B Q2 NG
She’s a real little bitch
Technique - Derogatory language - used to reduce Mimi to a derogatory term used to reflect negative stereotypes, placing Mimi into a helpless nature
Ian to Mimi at the end after she snitches
