How Bad Will Caesar's Revenge Be?
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Hey Orators!
Words to Know
Taking it WAY Back
100
So bad that this character says, "O pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers."
Who is Antony?
100
This lady of the play stabbed herself in the thigh.
Who is Portia?
100
Complete this repeated sentence from Antony's speech: "But Brutus says he was ambitious, ..."
What is "and Brutus is an honorable man."
100
The word we used in class to describe the plebians.
What is "fickle"?
100
In The Federalist No. 10, James Madison characterizes these as unavoidable, but manageable.
What are factions?
200
So bad that "mothers shall but smile when they behold Their infants ________ with the hands of war."
What is quartered?
200
This lady of the play told her husband, "You shall not stir out of your house today."
Who is Calphurnia?
200
This man is the first to give his speech to the plebeians.
Who is Brutus?
200
James Franco might be a modern one of these. It's the word for the expectation of a man in Shakespeare's times.
What is "Renaissance Man".
200
This President uses anaphora when he states “With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on.”
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
300
So bad that Caesar’s spirit will come "ranging for revenge" with this Greek goddess by his side.
Who is Ate'?
300
Speaker of these lines, "When beggars die there are no comets seen; The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes."
Who is Calphurnia?
300
The speaker of these lines: "I have the same dagger for myself when it shall please my country to need my death."
Who is Brutus?
300
This type of character is larger than life, better than the rest of us, but is destined to cause his own demise.
What is the "Tragic Hero"?
300
The PURPOSE of the Federalist No. 10 was to encourage the general public to
What is support the Constitution?
400
So bad that Antony vows to put this in every wound of Caesar. (A proposal that is less strange than it sounds.)
What is a tongue?
400
She is Cato's daughter.
Who is Portia?
400
This orator appeals to the plebeians' sense of pathos when he says, "If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. You all do know this mantle."
Who is Antony?
400
This is related to the Natural Order. It's not the one that shows lions eating gazelle, but the one about who is the most important.
What is the Great Chain of Being?
400
Though written by different people, all of the Federalist Papers were signed by "Publius", possibly an attempt at this type of rhetorical appeal.
What is appeal to Ethos?
500
So bad that even these inanimate objects will "rise and mutiny"
What are stones?
500
This lady of the play is barren, so Caesar asks Antony to touch her as he runs by during Lupercal.
Who is Calphurnia?
500
Complete this inflammatory sentence of Antony's "And, being men, hearing the will of Caesar, It will inflame you; it will make you mad. ’Tis good you know not that you are his _______"
What are "heirs"?
500
The philosophy that teaches its adherents not to show emotion.
What is Stoicism?
500
This is your chance to show Mr. Kerch what you got ;) The FULL Preamble to the Constitution goes like this...
What is "We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
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