Roman History
What was the place where the Romans held debates? It made their laws, and was made up of politicians and military guards.
The Senate
What is the turning point of a sonnet called?
The volta
What does this mean:
To be or not to be; that is the question.
To live or not to live; that's what I am wondering.
What does this mean:
The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interrèd with their bones
Bad things that men do are remembered long after they die, but their good deeds are quickly dismissed
What is a strawman argument?
An attack on a simplified argument, not the real one
True/false: The Romans fought with themselves more than others.
True
What meter does Shakespeare write his sonnets (and plays) in?
Iambic Pentameter
What does this mean:
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Cowards die inside/waste their time many times in life, but the brave only die a real death once.
What does this mean:
Neither a borrower nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry
Don't lend money and don't borrow money because unpaid loans mean you lose the friendship AND the money, and borrowing means you lose your ability to stand on your own
What is a false dichotomy?
What river did Julius Caesar cross to start the war with Pompey?
The Rubicon
What does this mean:
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
What does this mean:
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other word would smell as sweet.
What is a name anyway? What we call a rose would smell just as nice if we called it something else.
What does this mean:
We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep
We are made of the same things dreams are made of; life is like a short dream
What is anaphora?
Repetition of phrases at the beginning of a sentence, paragraph, etc
What two brothers did the Romans believe established Rome?
Romulus and Remus
What does this mean:
Or else of thee this I prognosticate:
Thy end is truth’s and beauty’s doom and date.
Or else I make this judgement of you: Your death would kill all truth and beauty.
What does this mean:
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Life is just a play act, full of worry and over too fast; no one will remember it because it's meaningless.
What does this mean:
Jesters do oft prove prophets
Jesters/jokers are the only ones who can speak truth to a king, so they often prove to be good predictors of what's to come
What is the opposite of anaphora?
Epistrophe
Who is going to succeed Caesar?
Octavian/Augustus
What does this mean:
So are you to my thoughts as food to life,
Or as sweet-seasoned showers are to the ground;
You are to my thoughts vital as food to living, or rain to crops.
What does this mean:
The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief
The person who grins and bears it when robbed steals back dignity from the thief.
What does this mean:
Therefore love moderately; long love doth so;
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.
Love in moderation; long love moves slower; fast passion burns out too soon and becomes wasteful
What is syllogism?
Logic with two or more pieces of evidence:
If humans are mortal
And Caesar is human
Then Caesar is mortal