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A Level English Lit Paper 1-Othello REDO INTO SCENES > Language > Flashcards

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What language techniques do we see in Othello?

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  • Poison/disease imagery
  • Biblical allusion
  • Motif of consumption
  • Motif of storytelling
  • Animal/bestial imagery
  • Semantics of witchcraft
  • Motif of sight
  • Musical metaphor
  • Garden imagery
  • Semantics of war mixed with semantics of love/marriage
  • Semantics of economics
  • Racist language
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Poison/ disease imagery
‘Iago asks Roderigo to ____ Brabantio and ‘poison his____’

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‘plague’
‘poison his delight

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Semantics of economics
‘the purchase made, the fruits are to ensue…. (Othello)

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“the purchase made, the fruits are to ensue: That profit’s yet to come ‘tween me and you’ a2s3

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Garden imagery
‘our bodies are gardens… a1s3

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“our bodies are gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners” a1s3

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Garden imagery
‘our ____ lusts; whereof I take this…’

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‘our unbitten lusts; whereof I take this, that you call love, to be a sect or scion” a1s3 Iago

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Musical metaphor Iago
‘I’ll set down the…

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“I’ll set down the pegs that make this music, as honest as I am” a2s1

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Motif of witchcraft a1s2 Brabantio

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‘o thou foul thief’
“thou hast enchanted her”
“abused her delicate youth with drugs or minerals”
“she is abused, stolen from me and corrupted by spells and medicines bought of mountebacks” a1s3

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Biblical allusion Iago
‘I am not ….’

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I am not what I am’ links to the Devil

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motif of appetite a2s3
‘his soul is so____ to her love… (Iago)

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‘his soul is so enfettered to her love … even her appetite shall play the god’

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motif of disease a2s3
‘i’ll pour this ___ into his ear…’ (Iago)

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‘I’ll pour this pestilence into his ear that she repeals him for her body’s lust’

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Predatory language a2s3
‘So will I turn her virtue into pitch and….’ (Iago)

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‘So will I turn her virtue into pitch and our of her own goodness make the net that shall enmesh them all’

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Monosyllabic word Iago a3s3
‘Ha I like…

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Ha, I like not that’

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Jealousy metaphor a3s3
‘and oft my jealousy… (Iago)
‘O beware, my lord, o
f jealousy! It is the green-eyed…

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‘and oft my jealousy shapes faults that are not’
‘O beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock the meat it feeds on’

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Jealousy metaphor a3s3
‘Trifles light as air are …

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Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ’ Iago

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Mythical quality of handkerchief a3s3
‘there’s magic in the ___ of it…

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‘there’s magic in the web of it’

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Motif of disease showing Othello’s poisoned mind a4s1
‘O, it comes o’er my memory…

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‘O, it comes o’er my memory as doth the raven o’er the infectious house boding to all-he had my handkerchief

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Iago transforming symbol of bed
‘strangle her in her bed- even the bed… a4s1

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‘strangler her in her bed- even the bed she hath contaminated’

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Allusion to Diana to suggest D mocking O a4s2
‘the moon___
a5s2 ‘it is the very error…

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‘the moon winks’
‘it is the very error of the moon’

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Motif of storytelling Othello a4s1
‘I took you for that…

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‘I took you for that cunning whore of Venice that married with Othello. You! Mistress!’

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The Willow song a4s3
‘Let nobody ___ him, his ___ I approve’
‘I called my love…

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‘Let nobody blame him. his scorn I approve’
‘I called my love false love; but what said he then?’

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Light imagery before D’s death a5s2
‘Put out the light! If I quench the…

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‘Put out the light! If I quench thee, thou flaming minister, I can again thy former light restore should I repent me’

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Personification of Justice & legalistic language a5s2
‘Justice to break her ____
‘Take heed of ____. thou art on thy death-bed’

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‘Justice to break her sword!’
‘Take heed of perjury. Thou art on thy death-bed’

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Fragmented language to suggest monumental impact of O’s actions
a5s2
‘My wife, my wife!…

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‘My wife, my wife! what wife? I have no wife.’

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Emilia racially charged religious imagery a5s2
‘O the more angel she…

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O the more angel she, And you the blacker devil’

A Level English Lit Paper 1-Othello REDO INTO SCENES (8 decks)

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