This is using strategically placed pauses in order to allow time for a reaction
What is Dramatic Pause
100
"I am but a mender of bad soles"
Who is the Cobbler
100
This literary device is present in the following quote: "And therefore think him as a serpents egg"
What is a simile
100
This is how Cassius tricks Brutus into joining the conspiracy
What is forging letters from the people of Rome
100
What character is killed at the end of Act III
Who is Cinna the Poet
200
This is words with emotional connotations intended to sway the reader’s opinion
What is Loaded Words
200
Beware the Ides of March!
Who is the Soothsayer
200
This is a type of metaphor that suggest comparisons without directly stating the comparison
What is an implied metaphor
200
This is the reason Cassius kills himself
What is he miscontrues Titinius' situation and thinks all is lost
200
What literary device is represented by the appearance of Caesar's ghost?
What is foreshadowing
300
This is opposition or contrast of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction
What is Antithesis
300
When beggars die, there are no comets seen. The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.
Who is Calphurnia
300
This is the usually humorous use of a word in such a way as to suggest two or more of its meanings or the meaning of another word similar in sound
What is a pun
300
This is the the sarcastic phrase that Antony keeps repeating during his funeral speech
What is "Brutus is an honorable man"
300
Who is the character that reinterprets Calphurnia's dream and thus persuades Caesar to come to the capitol?
Who is Decius
400
This is an expression of doubt (often feigned) by which a speaker appears uncertain as to what he should think, say, or do.
What is Aporia
400
This was the noblest Roman of them all
Who is Antony
400
This is a statement that is seemingly contradictory or opposed to common sense, and yet is perhaps true
What is a paradox
400
This is what Calphurnia dreamed about Caesar
What is his statue was spouting blood and Romans were bathing in it
400
What do Cassius and Brutus fight about in Act IV?
What is Cassius taking bribes and refusing Brutus gold (money)
500
This is a persistent repetition of the same plea in much the same words.
What is Epimone
500
Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood!
Who is Antony
500
These are the 3 types of irony with their definitions
What is situational irony: the opposite of what one expects, dramatic irony: when the audience knows more than the characters, and verbal irony: saying one thing and meaning another
500
This is the character that tries to warn Caesar of the conspiracy