AO2

Question 1

asides

Answer 1

• a character remark either to the audience or another character, that other characters on stage are not supposed to hear

Question 2

monologue

Answer 2

an extended speeech by a single character that is interrupted by others

Question 3

solioquy

Answer 3

a speech a character gives when they are alone on the stage

Question 4

foil

Answer 4

a character whose personality or attitudes are in sharp contrasts to those of another character in the same work

Question 5

allusion

Answer 5

• reference to an event, person , play or other work of literture
• shakesphares work contains numerous allusions to greek and roman mythology

Question 6

verses

Answer 6

• poetic language that includes meter and sometimes rhyms - organised lines with a consistent numbers of syllables

Question 7

prose

Answer 7

• ordinary written language with no meter or rhyme - organized in sentence

Question 8

why he uses poetic styles

Answer 8

• poetic styles of verse used for high status, tragic moments.
• prose used for the low status characters (servants, clowns, drunks and villians) proclamations, written challenges, accusations, lettters and to express madness.
• othellos slow degradtion in speech represents also the degrading of the mind

Question 9

foot

Answer 9

• a group of syllables that form one complete unit of a metrical pattern

Question 10

meter

Answer 10

• is describes in terms of the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables and the total number of metrical feet in line verse.
• meter is responsible for creating the rhytm of a line

Question 11

motifs

Question 12

tradgedy

Answer 12

• tradegies achieve a catharisis by arousing pity and terror in the audience. a social good, watching a terrible thing makes us not want to repeat them in our own lives.
• catharisis is an empathy for a character, and by the end the catharisis the the terrible thing that happens, those negative emotions will be removed. the audience healed
• the hero is lead into a fatal calamity (tragic flaw or error) - haramtia which takes in the form of hubris (excessive pride leading to divine retribution)

Question 13

othello setting

Answer 13

• journey from venice, italy and cyprus
• venice = order of rule of reason, venice was incredible powerful city state, with a large amount of military power.
• when the characters are in venice, we see conflict dealt with in rationale and in a reasonable way. brabantio airs his problems to the duke, who diplomaticaly resolves his issues with othello.
• cyrpus = disorder of passion? cyprus was an idea that regualrly fought over - think about a modern place that has been ravaged by mutiple times. syria obviously that being a war torn place it would have alot of tension. it seems syprus is the place where characters lose the most composure

Question 14

trochaic

Answer 14

• more stress falls on first syllable more than the second
• “never will he cassio”
• “why then i think cassio an honest man”