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ENGLISH KEYWORDS- OTHELLO
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- 1ASIDE- A DRAMATIC CONVENTION IN WHICH A CHARACTER SPEAKS IN SUCH A WAY THAT SOME OF THE CHARACTERS ON STAGE DO NOT HEAR WHAT IS SAID, WHILE THE AUDIENCE DO.
- IT MAY ALSO BE DIRECT ADDRESS TO THE AUDIENCE, REVEALING A CHARACTER'S INNER THOUGHTS OR MOTIVES (AS WITH IAGO) - 2BLANK VERSE- UNRHYMED IAMBIC PENTAMETER
- IT ALLOWS A PLEASANT VARIATION OF FULL STRONG STRESSES PER LINE, GENERALLY 4 OR 5, WHILE CONFORMING TO THE BASIC METRICAL PATTERN OF 5 IAMBS.
- Ss USES BLANK VERSE TO CONVEY THE INTENSITY OF A CHARACTER'S FEELING. - 3CATALYSTA PERSON OR THING THAT BRINGS ABOUT A CHANGE OR EVENT
- 4CATHARSISTHE PURGING OF THE EFFECTS OF PENT UP EMOTION AND REPRESSED THOUGHTS BY BRINGING THEM TO THE SURFACE OF CONSCIOUSNESS. (THE PURGING OF AN INTENSE EMOTION)
- 5CHARACTERISATION- THE WAY IN WHICH A WRITER CREATES CHARACTERS SO AS TO ATTRACT OR REPEL OUR SYMPATHY.
- DIFFERENT KINDS OF LITERATURE HAVE CERTAIN CONVENTIONS OF CHARACTERISATION.
- IN JACOBEAN DRAMA THERE WERE MANY STOCK DRAMATIC TYPES WHOSE CHARACTERISTICS WERE FAMILIAR TO THE AUDIENCE (i.e. MACHIAVELLI). - 6CHORUS- A GROUP OF CHARACTERS IN THE TRAGEDIES OF ANCIENT GREECE WHO REPRESENT THE ORDINARY PEOPLE IN THEIR ATTITUDES TO THE ACTION.
- THEY WITNESS ANS COMMENT ON EVENTS, BUT DO NOT PARTICIPATE IN THEM. - 7COLLOQUIALISMA CAUSAL FORM OF EXPRESSION USED IN SPEECH
- 8DENOUEMENTTHE FINAL UNFOLDING OF A PLOT; THE POINT AT WHICH THE AUDIENCE'S EXPECTATIONS, BE THEY HOPES OR FEARS, ABOUT WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE CHARACTERS ARE FINALLY SATISFIED OR DENIED
- 9DRAMATIC IRONY- A FEATURE OF MANY PLAYS, IT OCCURS WHEN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PLOT ALLOWS THE AUDIENCE TO POSSESS MORE INFO THAN SOME OF THE CHARACTERS.
-IAGO IS THE SOURCE OF MUCH OF THE DRAMATIC IRONY IN OTHELLO, INFORMING THE AUDIENCE OF HIS INTENTIONS.
- CHARACTERS MAY ALSO SPEAK IN A DRAMATICALLY IRONIC WAY, SAYING THAT POINTS TO EVENTS TO COME WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THEIR WORDS. - 10FEMINISM- BROADLY SPEAKING, A POLITICAL
MOVEMENT CLAIMING POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC EQUALITY OF WOMEN WITH MEN.
- FEMINIST CRITICS AND SCHOLARSHIP SEEK TO EXPOSE OR EXPLORE THE MASCULINE 'BIAS' IN TEXTS AND CHALLENGE TRADITIONAL IDEAS ABOUT THEM, CONSTRUCTING AND THEN OFFERING A FEMININE PERSPECTIVE ON WORKS OF ART.
- SINCE THE LATE 1960s FEMINIST THEORIES ABOUT LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE, AND FEMINIST INTERPRETATIONS OF TEXTS HAVE MULTIPLIED ENORMOUSLY.
- FEMINISM HAS ITS ROOT IN PREVIOUS CENTURIES: EARLY TEXTS CHAMPIONING WOMEN'S RIGHTS. - 11FORESHADOWINGA TECHNIQUE USED TO HINT AT AND PREPARE THE READER FOR THE LATER EVENTS OR A TURNING POINT IN THE ACTION
- 12HARMATIAA GREEK TERM MEANING AN ERROR OF JUDGEMENT
- 13HUBRISTHE SELF INDULGENT CONFIDENCE THAT CAUSES AS TRAGIC HERO TO IGNORE DECREES, LAWS AND WARNINGS OF THE GODS, AND THEREFORE DEFY THEM TO BRING ABOUT HIS OR HER OWN DOWNFALL
- 14IDIOMA CHARACTERISTIC MODE OF EXPRESSION OF A CHARACTER
- 15IMAGERYRELATES TO FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IN A PIECE OF LITERATURE (SIMILAR TO SIMILES AND METAPHORS) OR ALL THE WORDS WHICH REFER TO OBJECTS AND QUALITIES WHICH APPEAL TO THE SENSES AND FEELINGS
- 16THEMATIC IMAGERYIMAGERY WHICH RECURS THROUGHOUT A WORK OF ART. FOR EXAMPLE IN OTHELLO, Ss' IMAGES OF THE DEVIL AND INFECTION UNDERPIN THE THEME OF EVIL
- 17IRONYIN SPEECH CONSISTS OF SAYING ONE THING AND MEANING ANOTHER
- 18JACOBEANREFERS TO THE PLAYS WRITTEN DURING THE REIGN OF JAMES I
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