Julius Caesar
Vocabulary
Poetry Terms
Poetry Content
Farrago
100
This character planned and organized the conspiracy.
What is Cassius?
100
an original model on which something was patterned or replicated
What is archetype?
100
Langston Hughes uses this literary device to describe life.
What is extended metaphor (staircase)?
100
This is the symbol in “Stopping by Woods”.
What is the woods?
100
This is the literary term for excessive use of exaggeration for poetic effect.
What is hyperbole?
200
I dreamed of Romans bathing their hands in the blood of Caesar.
What is Calpurnia?
200
to disown, reject, or deny the validity of
What is repudiate?
200
What is the poetic device in these lines: “You powdered your sorrow,/you gave it a back rub/and then you covered it with a blanket”
What is personification?
200
Give one example of courage from Sexton's poem.
What is (answers will vary)?
200
This is the vocabulary word that means "incapable of being understood"
What is inscrutable?
300
Give the speaker: “Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant taste of death but once.”
What is Caesar?
300
peevish, complaining, fretful
What is querulous?
300
Of the poems we discussed in class together, these use rhyme and meter.
What is “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” and "Loveliest of Trees"?
300
Langston Hughes uses this literary device to describe life.
What is extended metaphor (the staircase)?
300
This is the vocabulary word that means "shapeless; without definite form"
What is amorphous?
400
Give the speaker: “O pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, that I am meek and gentle with these butchers!”
What is Antony?
400
persistent, showing industry & determination
What is sedulous?
400
Give an example of alliteration.
What is . . .
400
In "Sonnet 29", the speaker's mood goes from ____ to ____ when he thinks of his beloved.
What is depressed/envious to happy?
400
This is the vocabulary word that means "to argue with someone against something"
What is remonstrate?
500
This is why Brutus joined the conspiracy.
What is that he feared Caesar would become a tyrant (change after he got more power)?
500
to increase in greatness, power, or wealth
What is aggrandize?
500
This is the literary terms for the repetition of vowel sounds in a line of poetry.
What is assonance?
500
This is what the speaker in “George Gray” regrets that his life lacks.
What is excitement, strong emotion?
500
Name two themes of the play Julius Caesar.
What is Manhood and Honor (virtue), Fate vs. Free will, Public self vs. Private self, Politics and Morality
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