Vocabulary
A variation of the word "portentous"
portentously (adverb)
portentousness (noun)
The act in which you will find the climax
Act 3
"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears!"
Antony
The members of the 2nd triumvirate
Antony, Octavius, Lepidus
The literary device used when Caesar said, "Hence! Wilt thou lift up Olympus?"
Allusion
A synonym for "miscontrued"
misunderstood, misinterpreted, mistook, confused
The _______ introduces the characters and setting and takes place entirely in Act 1
exposition
“Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once."
Julius Caesar
Brutus said Cassius didn't send him money; Cassius allowed Lucius Pella to accept bribes; Cassius was mad that Brutus condemned Pella and didn't accept Cassius's petitions for him to stop
The kind of irony that occurred when we all knew the letters were from Cassius, but Brutus didn't
dramatic irony
Act 4, Scene 1: “It is a creature that I teach to fight, to wind, to stop, to run directly on, his _____ motion governed by my spirit…”
corporal
Events that fall in this category can take place in Acts 2 or 3
rising action
“Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.”
Cassius
Name a case of mistaken identity
Cinna the Poet for Cinna the Conspirator; Lucilius for Brutus
Brutus's tragic flaw
He is an idealist and therefore has poor judgment; too trusting
"inter" in the vocabulary word "interpose" means ____
between, among, together
The category in which the following event belongs: Calphurnia has a dream about Caesar's death and begs him not to go to the capitol
rising action
“Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!”
Antony
Caesar's dying words (6 words)
"Et tu, Brute? Then fall Caesar!"
The literary device used when the soothsayer said "Beware the Ides of March."
foreshadowing
The definition of the noun form of "exploit"
an undertaking, act or deed
The ________ is only one event and occurs in Act 5
resolution
“Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.”
Brutus
The servant who stabbed Cassius after it was mistakenly thought that Titinius was captured
Pindarus
The kind of conflict that we see during Brutus's moral soliloquy in his garden