Othello
Types of
Satire
Types of
Comedy
The
Importance
of Being
Earnest
A Modest
Proposal
In-Context
Vocabulary
Othello
Types of
Satire
Types of
Comedy
The Importance
of Being Earnest
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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?
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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?
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Othello asks
Desdemona if she
has prayed
tonight for this
reason.
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What is so her
soul will have the
opportunity to go
to heaven?
As Othello
changes over
time, he is this
type of
character.
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What is a
dynamic
character?
“Ah, balmy
breath, that dost
almost persuade
Justice to break
her sword!” What
part of speech is
“balmy”?
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What is an
adjective?
To enlarge, increase,
or represent
something beyond
normal bounds so it
becomes ridiculous
and its faults can be
seen.
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What is
exaggeration?
To present things
that are out of place
or are absurd in
relation to its
surroundings.
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What is
incongruity?
To present the
opposite of the
normal order, as in
the normal order of
events or a
hierarchical order.
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What is
reversal?
To imitate the
techniques and/or
style of some
person, place, or
thing.
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What is
parody?
This is the purpose
of satire.
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What is social
commentary?
The main plot is
serious and might
lead to
catastrophe but
ends happily for
the protagonist.
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What is
tragicomedy?
A silly plot that is
primarily intended
to make people
laugh.
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What is a
farce?
A play in which
reality is
disregarded and a
fanciful world and
situations
predominate – like
Harry Potter.
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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.
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What is
burlesque?
A plot in which
the protagonist,
no matter how
dissolute, reforms
in the end.
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What is a
sentimental
comedy?
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The Importance of
Being Earnest offers
commentary on this
time period, named
for the queen of
England at the time.
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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.
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What is
bunburrying?
Oscar Wilde was
born and raised in
this country.
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What is Ireland?
This type of
character – such as
Lady Bracknell or
the father in Meet
the Parents –
obstructs the
relationship or their
daughter.
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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.
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What is an
all-inclusive
resolution?
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This is Jonathan
Swift’s “modest
proposal” for
ending hunger in
his home country.
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What is eating
babies?
Like Oscar
Wilde, Jonathan
Swift hails from
this country.
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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.
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What is
irony?
Swift opens his essay
with this very
realistic image.
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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.
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What are the
needs of the
poor Irish
people?
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I am assured by our
merchants, that a
boy or a girl before
twelve years old is
no salable
commodity.
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What is “able to
be sold”?
It is a
melancholy
object to those
who walk
through this
great town…
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What is
“sad”?
I’ve now
realized the
vital
importance of
being earnest!
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What is
“honest”?
Until yesterday I
had no idea that
there were any
families or
persons whose
origin was a
Terminus.
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What is “a
railway
station”?
And therefore it
will have one other
collateral
advantage, by
lessening the
number of papists
among us.
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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?