4. Othello

5. Types of Satire

6. Types of Comedy

7. The Importance of Being Earnest

8. A Modest Proposal

9. In-Context Vocabulary

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11. 1 - 100 “She must die else she’ll betray more men.” What is the primary reason that Othello kills Desdemona?

12. 1 - 100 What is so she does not cheat on anyone else?

13. “Put out the light, then put out the light.” What does Othello intend to do here?

14. 1 - 100 What is blow out the candles and then kill Desdemona?

15. Othello asks Desdemona if she has prayed tonight for this reason.

16. 1 - 100 What is so her soul will have the opportunity to go to heaven?

17. As Othello changes over time, he is this type of character.

18. 1 - 100 What is a dynamic character?

19. “Ah, balmy breath, that dost almost persuade Justice to break her sword!” What part of speech is “balmy”?

20. 1 - 100 What is an adjective?

21. 1 - 100 To enlarge, increase, or represent something beyond normal bounds so it becomes ridiculous and its faults can be seen.

22. 1 - 100 What is exaggeration?

23. To present things that are out of place or are absurd in relation to its surroundings.

24. 1 - 100 What is incongruity?

25. To present the opposite of the normal order, as in the normal order of events or a hierarchical order.

26. 1 - 100 What is reversal?

27. To imitate the techniques and/or style of some person, place, or thing.

28. 1 - 100 What is parody?

29. This is the purpose of satire.

30. 1 - 100 What is social commentary?

31. 1 - 100 The main plot is serious and might lead to catastrophe but ends happily for the protagonist.

32. 1 - 100 What is tragicomedy?

33. A silly plot that is primarily intended to make people laugh.

34. 1 - 100 What is a farce?

35. A play in which reality is disregarded and a fanciful world and situations predominate – like Harry Potter.

36. 1 - 100 What is a fantasy?

37. A play which depends upon physical action and buffoonery – like Jackass, The Three Stooges, or the humor involving the cucumber sandwiches.

38. 1 - 100 What is burlesque?

39. A plot in which the protagonist, no matter how dissolute, reforms in the end.

40. 1 - 100 What is a sentimental comedy?

41. 1 - 100 The Importance of Being Earnest offers commentary on this time period, named for the queen of England at the time.

42. 1 - 100 What is the Victorian Age?

43. This is Algernon’s nickname for leading a double life; it is derived from the name of his contrived ailing uncle.

44. 1 - 100 What is bunburrying?

45. Oscar Wilde was born and raised in this country.

46. 1 - 100 What is Ireland?

47. This type of character – such as Lady Bracknell or the father in Meet the Parents – obstructs the relationship or their daughter.

48. 1 - 100 What is a blocking figure?

49. This is the name for an ending that includes all of the characters – even minor characters like Miss Prism and Dr. Chasuble.

50. 1 - 100 What is an all-inclusive resolution?

51. 1 - 100 This is Jonathan Swift’s “modest proposal” for ending hunger in his home country.

52. 1 - 100 What is eating babies?

53. Like Oscar Wilde, Jonathan Swift hails from this country.

54. 1 - 100 What is Ireland?

55. This is the literary term for the type of “twist” that Swift uses, giving you the opposite of what you would expect.

56. 1 - 100 What is irony?

57. Swift opens his essay with this very realistic image.

58. 1 - 100 What is a poor mother begging in the streets with many children?

59. Though Swift’s “proposal” is not serious, he seriously wants his readers to turn his attention to this.

60. 1 - 100 What are the needs of the poor Irish people?

61. 1 - 100 I am assured by our merchants, that a boy or a girl before twelve years old is no salable commodity.

62. 1 - 100 What is “able to be sold”?

63. It is a melancholy object to those who walk through this great town…

64. 1 - 100 What is “sad”?

65. I’ve now realized the vital importance of being earnest!

66. 1 - 100 What is “honest”?

67. Until yesterday I had no idea that there were any families or persons whose origin was a Terminus.

68. 1 - 100 What is “a railway station”?

69. And therefore it will have one other collateral advantage, by lessening the number of papists among us.

70. 1 - 100 What are “Catholics”?

72. The speaker of this famous quote: “To lose one parent…may be regarded as misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.”

73. Who is Lady Bracknell?