Key Terms

Question 1

Anti-Miscegenation

Answer 1

Being against inter-racial mixing. (Brabantio’s beliefs.)

Question 2

Aposiopesis

Answer 2

Breaking off in speech.

Question 3

Binary Opposites

Answer 3

Complete opposites. (Iago and Othello.)

Question 4

Cognitive Dissonance

Answer 4

Holding two conflicting beliefs. (Men and Emilia.)

Question 5

Decadence

Answer 5

Luxury and over-indulgence. (Desdemona and Othello.)

Question 6

Diegesis

Answer 6

Interior view of a world.

Question 7

Duplicitous

Answer 7

Deceitful. (Iago.)

Question 8

Equivocation

Answer 8

Intentionally ambiguous language, to conceal or confuse.

Question 9

Filial Ingratitude

Answer 9

Ungratefulness from a child to a father. (Desdemona to Brabantio.)

Question 10

Filial Love

Answer 10

Love of a father to a child. (Brabantio to Desdemona.)

Question 11

Great Chain of Being

Answer 11

Dictated God’s natural and rightful order. (Men being superior to women.)

Question 12

Machiavellian

Answer 12

Cunning, and lacking a moral code. (Iago.)

Question 13

Prose

Answer 13

No rhythm and informal speech.

Question 14

Proxemics

Answer 14

Stage positioning. (Othello and Iago kneeling together.)

Question 15

Stichomythia

Answer 15

Rapid succession of lines.

Question 16

Verse

Answer 16

Set rhythm, sophisticated speech.