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Slide 2 mentions a brief description of who was William Shakespeare and what he accomplished. he was well educated, wrote many plays, wrote several poems, and he most likely started as an actor.

Slide 3 shows the many vocabulary that Shakespeare created, many of those words being related to literature. Included were "sonnet", "couplet", and "quatrain".

Slide 4 teaches what is verse and what is prose. verse is written in rhyme or includes meter, while prose is ordinary writing.

Slide 5 has examples of verse and prose written in text.

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Slide 6 describes the usage of prose and verse. Verse is for the more important things, while prose is for the more irrelevant things in a story.

Slide 7 describes a ind of trap of verse and prose in the play of "Othello", stating that it has hard transitions between the two forms of writing. A question is also asked to keep in mind while reading "Othello".

Slide 9 explains more of Shakespeare's new words. First up is foot which are groups of syllables that create a complete meter. Meter is described in different patterns. iambic pentameter is one of the types of metrical patterns and is the most common one in Shakespeare.

Slide 10 shows what is an iambic pentameter

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Slide 11 states the meanings of Blank Verse and Free Verse. Blank Verse has unrhymed iambic pentameter and Free Verse has no regular meter

Slide 12 shows the characteristics of a sonnet. Typical rhyme scheme, organized in quatrains and a couplet, 14 line poem in iambic pentameter usually, etc.

Slide 13-14-: Quatrain: four-line verse stanza that is usually rhymed. Couplet: Pair of rhyming verse lines. Example.

Slides 15-17 have the meanings of allusion: reference to other things. Foil: character with contrasting personality to another. Aside: Character's remark that no one else was supposed to hear, Monologue: An interrupted speech of a character. Soliloquy: speech given by character when alone.

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Slide 17: An allusion in the works of Shakespeare, which is Janus.

Slides 19-21:Description of tragedy: Disastrous downfall of a hero that arouses sad emotions from audience and leads the hero to a fatal calamity. Its effect depends on the audience. The hero that undergoes tragedy is good and important, he suffers from some foreign thing, and he finally recognizes what happened. Tragic flaw: What leads a hero to his downfall.

Slides 22-23: Terminology of 2 words in Othello. Cuckold and moor. A man who's wife betrayed him represented by horns and a figure of dark appearance that represents something not human and an African descendant who migrated

Slide 24: Othello is a tragedy written in 1603 that include fascination with evil and studies the effects of some sins.

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Slides 25-29 include Othello's settings, characters, images, and villains. From Venice to Cyprus, Othello, Duke, Brabantio, Iago, Cassio, Desdemona, Emilia, Roderigo, and Bianca. Themes include race, love, gender, class, friendship, all flowing in the story of Othello, a high ranked soldier who marries a beautiful woman and describes their personal story. The images have dark and light patterns, focused on natural world, some are normal animals, others are monsters and objects. The villain is what you think a villain is. He is clever and evil that loves things for his own sake.

30-31 displays the plot and thematic ideas of Othello. The ideas include descriptions of all the nature behind emotions and their importance and the plot is of friendship and love betrayals that cause the hero to commit immoral actions like murder and suicide thanks to the actions of an outsider which was a huge scheme.

Slides 32-33 show famous examples of jealousy.

Slides 34-36 further exemplify jealousy so it can be easily identified by adding several quotes, all saying how it can do the impossible and cause harm.

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Slide 37 has the central theme of the play which is love and all the emotions caused by the destruction of it. The play has many contrasting couples, with different emotions I believe.