Lit Terms for Othello

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Dramatic Irony

• Irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play

• So that the audience will know the true character traits. • Ex. II.iii.384-390 “Two things are to be dons. My wife

moist move for Casio to there mistress Ill set her on. Myself the while to draw the Moor apart. And bring him jump when he may Casio find Soliciting his wife. Ay. That’s the way Dull not decide by coldness and delay.

Oxymoron

• A figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous seemingly self-contradictory effect as in “cruel Kindness”

• To add continuing exsplanation and detail to lines of the script

• Ex. I.i.49- Whip me such honest knaves.

Pun

• The use of words or phrases to exploit ambiguities and innuendoes in their meaning usually for humours effect

• To keep the reader entertaind and give them a little giggle

• Ex. I.i.92-93- An old black ram is topping your white ewe.

Malapropism

• An act or habit of misusing words ridiculously, confusion of words that are similar in sound

• To make the reader wonder… Whats is going on?

• Ex. III.iii.53- That errs in ignorance and not in cunning.

Allusion

• A passing or casual reference; an incidental mention of something

• To inflict further understanding of what is being said

• Ex. I.i.66 For daws to peck at. I am not what I am

Bombast

• Speech too pompous for an occasion• To make something seem more formal that it

actually is • Ex. II.i.219-222- Come let us to the castle

News friends our wars are done the Turks are drowned How does my old acquaintance of the isle.

Hyperbole

• Obvious and intentional exaggeration• To really prove and exaggerate the point • Ex. II.i.121-123- You are pictures our of doors.

Bells in your parlors, Wild- cats in your ketches, Saints m your injuries, Devils being offended

Foil

• To prevent the success of, frustrate • To create drama• Ex. II.iii.36-45 – Imago- O they are our friends but one cup ill drink

for you – Casio- I have drunk but one cup to night and that

was craftily qualified too and behold what innovation it makes here

Onomatopoeia

• The formation of a word by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent

• To help the reader understand by using sounds

• Ex. I.I.80 What. Ho. Barbate! Seignior Brabant. Ho!

Setting

• The locale or peroid in which the action of a novel play film etc takes place

• To let the reader or watch know where the actors are located.

• Ex. II.i.5-8- Methinks the wind hath spoke aloud at land; a fuller blast nerer shook our battlements if it hath ruffiand so upon the sea.

Double Entendre

• A double meaning • So that the context can be understood in more

than one way. This entitles more people to understand it in their own way

• EX. III.iii.121-133“ By heaven thou echost me, As if there were some monster in thy thought too hideous to be shown. Thou dost mean something