Othello Review

The person who rats out Othello and Desdemona’s relationship to Brabantio and begins the rising action of the play.

• Roderigo
• Iago

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The man Othello named his lieutenant. 

• Iago
• Roderigo
• Brabantio
• Cassio

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The first two secret acts of the play. 

• Othello isn't really a soldier, and he hates Desdemona.
• Iago actually respects Othello and hates Desdemona. 
• •the marriage between Desdemona and Othello and the hidden relationship between Iago and Roderigo to bring Othello to his downfall

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The literary term used by describing Othello as “an old black ram is tupping your white ewe”; “you’ll have your daughter daughter covered with a Barabary horse”; “your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.”

• imagery
• foreshadowing
• flashback
• satire

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The metaphor Shakespeare uses to represent jealousy.

• Green with envy. 
• Seeing red. 
• Jealousy is hateful.
• "green-eyed monster"

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This key symbol represents the love and later the distrust between Othello and Desdemona.

• a ring
• a handkerchief 
• a necklace 
• pretty shoes

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Othello experiences this when he becomes so enraged by Iago’s lies and believes Desdemona to be unfaithful.

• epileptic seizure 
• whooping cough
• anxiety attack
• fit of laughter 

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He is a general from Venice whose presence signifies as a reminder of the distance that Othello has come in his transformation from a respected general to a man tormented by jealous rage.

• Iago
• Lodovico
• Duke of Venice
• Bob

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Who says, “Speak of me as I am…Of one that loved not wisely, but too well;/ Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought,/ Perplexed in the extreme; of one whose hand,/ Like the base Judean, threw a pearl away/ Richer than all his tribe. . .” (V.ii.341-347).

• Iago
• Othello
• Desdemona
• Roderigo

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Who says, “The world’s a huge thing; it is a great prize/ For a small vice. . .But for all the whole/ world? ‘Ud’s pity, who would not make her husband a/ cuckold to make him a monarch?” (IV.iii.65-72)

• Iago
• Desdemona
• Emilia
• Lodovico

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