Poetry
Julius Caesar
Elements of Literature
Context Clues
Picture this
100
A kind of comparison between unlike things in which some reasonable connection is instantly revealed.
What is a metaphor?
100
Caesar said this to Brutus when Brutus stabbed him.
What is Et tu, Brute?
100
A series of related events.
What is plot?
100
Hayley is on a Hiatus and has been gone for awhile.
What is a break or vacation
100
-Putty -Bendable
What is Malleable?
200
Attributing human qualities to a nonhuman thing or to an abstract Idea.
What is Personification?
200
Portia did this to prove her loyalty to Brutus.
What is Portia stabbing herself in the leg?
200
When and where the action takes place in a story.
What is setting?
200
The nefarious witch curse sleeping beauty with a sleeping spell.
What is Extreme wickedness?
200
-Shrill -High Pitched
What is Strident?
300
The use of words that sound like what they mean.
What is an onomatopoeia?
300
The plebeians killed this person for being mistaken for Cinna the Conspirator.
Who is Cinna the Poet?
300
A character that only has one or two key personality traits.
What is a flat character?
300
The pugnacious prisoner threw a chair at the guard.
What is eager to fight?
300
-Absurd -Ridiculous
What is Ludicrous?
400
The repetition of the accented the vowel sound and all subsequent sounds in a word.
What is rhyme?
400
Octavius, Antony, and Lepidus was this after Caesar's death.
What is triumvirs?
400
A character who fits our preconceived notions about a type.
What is a stock character?
400
The vacuous girl had trouble answer three times three.
What is lacking idea or intelligence.
400
-Shorten -Condensed
What is abridge?
500
A unit consisting of at least one stressed syllable and usually one or more unstressed syllables.
What is a foot?
500
The soothsayer says this warning to Caesar.
What is Beware the ides of March.
500
An idea or insight about human life and human nature that gives meaning to the story.
What is theme?
500
Burn baby burn disco conflagration.
What is inerno; huge fire?
500
-Soothe -Relieve
What is assuage?
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