Innis Othello Test 1

Front 1

tragedy

Back 1

series of actions leads to downfall of main character

Front 2

tragic hero

Back 2

main character of tragedy; audience pities them

Front 3

soliloquy

Back 3

long speech given by a character while alone on stage to reveal his/her private thoughts/intentions

Front 4

aside

Back 4

character's quiet remark to the audience or character that no once else on stage is supposed to hear

Front 5

dramatic irony

Back 5

when audience/reader knows something that one or more characters don't

Front 6

wretch

Back 6

miserable person

Front 7

beseech

Back 7

beg, plead

Front 8

abused

Back 8

deceived, violated

Front 9

gentle

Back 9

noble (title of respect)

Front 10

credit

Back 10

reputation

Front 11

gall

Back 11

bitterness

Front 12

fortitude

Back 12

strength

Front 13

prithee

Back 13

pray, please

Front 14

honest

Back 14

1. chaste
2. socially inferior

Front 15

cuckold

Back 15

man whose wife is unfaithful

Front 16

"a great arithmetician,...a Florentine,/...That never set a squadron in the field,/Not the division of the battle knows/More than a spinster-- unless the bookish theoric..."

Back 16

Iago to Roderigo
street at night

Front 17

"But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve/For daws to peck at. I am not what I am."

Back 17

Iago to Roderigo
street at night

Front 18

"You have lost half your soul./Even now, now, very now, an old black ram/Is tupping your white ewe."

Back 18

Iago to Brabantio
when Brab in balcony/house and Iago below at night

Front 19

"...O treason of blood! Fathers, from hence trust not your daughters' minds/By what you see them act"

Back 19

Brabantio to Roderigo
when looking through Brab's house for Desdemona w/ torches at night

Front 20

"But I pray you sir,/Are you fast married?"

Back 20

Iago to Othello
outside or in room with torches at night

Front 21

"I fetch my life and being/From men of royal siege, and my demerits/May speak unbonneted to as proud a fortune/As this that I have reached."

Back 21

Othello to Iago
room/outside w/ torches at night

Front 22

"But that I love the gentle Desdemona,/I would not my unhoused free condition/Put into circumscription and confine/ for the sea's worth."

Back 22

Othello to Iago
room/outside w/ torches at night

Front 23

"Not I. I must be found./My parts, my title, and my perfect soul/Shall manifest me rightly."

Back 23

Othello to Iago
room/outside w/ torches at night

Front 24

"That thou has practiced on her with foul charms,/Abused her delicate youth with drugs or miracles"

Back 24

Brabantio to Othello
at night while swordfighting

Front 25

"Valient Othello, we must straight employ you/Against the general enemy Ottoman."

Back 25

Duke to Othello
in courtroom/senate

Front 26

"She is abused, stol'n from me and corrupted/By spells and medicines bought of mountebanks."

Back 26

Brabantio to Duke/council
in courtroom/senate

Front 27

"If you do find me foul in her report./the trust, the office I do hold of you/Not only taken away, but let your sentence/Even fall upon my life."

Back 27

Othello to Duke/council
in courtroom/senate

Front 28

"These things to hear/Would Desdemona seriously incline.../She loved me for the dangers I had passed,/And I loved her that she did pity them."

Back 28

Othello to Duke/council
in courtoom/senate

Front 29

"Come hither, gentle mistress./Do you perceive in all this noble company/Where most you owe obedience?"

Back 29

Brabantio says to Desdemona
in courtroom/senate

Front 30

"But here's my husband,/And so much duty as my mother showed/ To you, preffering you before her father,/ So much I challenge that I may profess/Due to the Moor my lord."

Back 30

Desdemona says to Brabantio/council
in courtroom/senate

Front 31

"The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief;/He robs himself that spends a bootless grief."

Back 31

Duke says to Brabantio
in courtroom/council

Front 32

"A man he is of honesty and trust./To his conveyance I assign my wife."

Back 32

Othello to Duke
in courtroom/council

Front 33

"Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see./She has deceived her father, and may thee."

Back 33

Brabantio to Othello
in courtroom/council

Front 34

"I hate the Moor;/And it is thought abroad that twixt my sheets/He's done my office. I know not if't be true..."

Back 34

Iago in soliloquy

Front 35

"The Moor is of a free and open nature,/That thinks men honest that but seem to be so,/And will as tenderly be led by the nose/As asses are."

Back 35

Iago in soliloquy