Ancient Rome
The Bard
Plot Points
Who Said it and When?
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This famous rebel led an army in the Gladiator war.
Who is Spartacus?
100
Shakespeare was from this country
What is England?
100
Casca describes this public event to Brutus and Cassius in Act 1.
What is Caesar's rejection of the crown three times?
100
"Et Tu, Brute? Then fall, Caesar!"
Who is Caesar as he dies?
100
Antony successfully uses this literary device, which has to do with meaning the opposite of what one says.
What is verbal irony?
200
These three leaders made up the First Triumvirate.
Who are Crassus, Pompey, and Caesar.
200
Shakespeare's Theater had this now famous title.
What is The Globe?
200
The Soothsayer delivers this famous omen.
What is Beware the Ides of March?
200
I am constant as the Northern Star, Of whose true fixed and resting quality There is no fellow in the firmament.
Who is Caesar just before his assassination?
200
Antony uses these two concrete objects in his speech.
What are the will and the body of Caesar?
300
Caesar made this key decision at the Rubicon River.
What is crossing the river (and essentially declaring civil war)?
300
These types of people came to watch Shakespeare's plays.
What are groups from the upper class and lower class?
300
In Act I, Scene I, the Roman nobles first argue with the commoners and then decide to do this to show their disapproval of Caesar.
What is take down all of the images, trophies, and decorations that may be celebrating Caesar?
300
Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear: believe me for mine honour, and have respect to mine honour,
Who is Brutus at the start of his funeral speech?
300
A comparison between two unlike things, without using like or as, is known as this.
What is a metaphor?
400
Julius Caesar and Antony each had an affair with this famous Egyptian woman.
Who is Cleopatra?
400
Shakespearean plays are written mostly in this famous type of meter. Name it, define it, and read a line from Shakespeare using it.
What is Iambic Pentameter, 5 "feet" (Unstressed Syllable, Stressed Syllable 5 times)?
400
Calpurnia describes her dream to persuade Caesar to stay home. What happens in her dream?
What is Caesar's statue is stabbed and the Romans are bathing in his blood?
400
"I was born free as Caesar. So were you. We both have fed as well, and we can both Endure the winter’s cold as well as he."
Who is Cassius while trying to convince Brutus to join the conspiracy?
400
These are the three types of Irony in literature.
What are Verbal, Situational, and Dramatic?
500
Following their defeat, some 6,000 members of Spartacus' Army suffered this type of public execution along this road.
What is crucifixion along the Appian Way?
500
What is the name of the English town where Shakespeare was born?
What is Stratford upon Avon?
500
The Roman mob attacks this citizen after Caesar's death and Antony's speech.
Who is Cinna the Poet?
500
This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators save only he Did that they did in envy of great Caesar.
Who is Antony about Brutus after Brutus dies?
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Ethos, Pathos, and Logos are the three types of rhetorical appeals. To what does each appeal?
What are Ethos = Credibility/Ethics; Pathos = Emotion, and Logos = Logic/Reason?
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