Othello
Types of Satire
Types of Comedy
The Importance of Being Earnest
A Modest Proposal
In-Context Vocabulary
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“She must die else she’ll betray more men.” What is the primary reason that Othello kills Desdemona?
What is so she does not cheat on anyone else?
“Put out the light, then put out the light.” What does Othello intend to do here?
What is blow out the candles and then kill Desdemona?
Othello asks Desdemona if she has prayed tonight for this reason.
What is so her soul will have the opportunity to go to heaven?
As Othello changes over time, he is this type of character.
What is a dynamic character?
“Ah, balmy breath, that dost almost persuade Justice to break her sword!” What part of speech is “balmy”?
What is an adjective?
To enlarge, increase, or represent something beyond normal bounds so it becomes ridiculous and its faults can be seen.
What is exaggeration?
To present things that are out of place or are absurd in relation to its surroundings.
What is incongruity?
To present the opposite of the normal order, as in the normal order of events or a hierarchical order.
What is reversal?
To imitate the techniques and/or style of some person, place, or thing.
What is parody?
This is the purpose of satire.
What is social commentary?
The main plot is serious and might lead to catastrophe but ends happily for the protagonist.
What is tragicomedy?
A silly plot that is primarily intended to make people laugh.
What is a farce?
A play in which reality is disregarded and a fanciful world and situations predominate – like Harry Potter.
What is a fantasy?
A play which depends upon physical action and buffoonery – like Jackass, The Three Stooges, or the humor involving the cucumber sandwiches.
What is burlesque?
A plot in which the protagonist, no matter how dissolute, reforms in the end.
What is a sentimental comedy?
The Importance of Being Earnest offers commentary on this time period, named for the queen of England at the time.
What is the Victorian Age?
This is Algernon’s nickname for leading a double life; it is derived from the name of his contrived ailing uncle.
What is bunburrying?
Oscar Wilde was born and raised in this country.
What is Ireland?
This type of character – such as Lady Bracknell or the father in Meet the Parents – obstructs the relationship or their daughter.
What is a blocking figure?
This is the name for an ending that includes all of the characters – even minor characters like Miss Prism and Dr. Chasuble.
What is an all-inclusive resolution?
This is Jonathan Swift’s “modest proposal” for ending hunger in his home country.
What is eating babies?
Like Oscar Wilde, Jonathan Swift hails from this country.
What is Ireland?
This is the literary term for the type of “twist” that Swift uses, giving you the opposite of what you would expect.
What is irony?
Swift opens his essay with this very realistic image.
What is a poor mother begging in the streets with many children?
Though Swift’s “proposal” is not serious, he seriously wants his readers to turn his attention to this.
What are the needs of the poor Irish people?
I am assured by our merchants, that a boy or a girl before twelve years old is no salable commodity.
What is “able to be sold”?
It is a melancholy object to those who walk through this great town…
What is “sad”?
I’ve now realized the vital importance of being earnest!
What is “honest”?
Until yesterday I had no idea that there were any families or persons whose origin was a Terminus.
What is “a railway station”?
And therefore it will have one other collateral advantage, by lessening the number of papists among us.
What are “Catholics”?
The speaker of this famous quote: “To lose one parent…may be regarded as misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.”
Who is Lady Bracknell?