Shakespeare Vocab
This word means a prediction or warning about the future.
What is an omen?
Who warns Caesar to “Beware the Ides of March”?
Who is the Soothsayer?
This theme is shown through the conspirators turning against Caesar.
What is betrayal?
Julius Caesar was the leader of this ancient civilization.
What is Rome?
This character is Caesar’s close friend who joins the conspiracy.
Who is Brutus?
This vocabulary word means to betray someone.
What is betrayal?
Where is Caesar assassinated?
What is the Senate?
This theme is shown by Caesar wanting more control over Rome.
What is power?
The “Ides of March” falls on this date.
What is March 15?
This character convinces Brutus to join the conspirators.
Who is Cassius?
This word describes a person who rules with total power and cruelty.
What is a tyrant?
What does Brutus believe Caesar could become if crowned king?
What is a tyrant?
Brutus struggles between friendship and this duty to Rome.
What is loyalty?
Caesar was killed by a group known as the what?
What are the conspirators?
This character remains loyal to Caesar and defeats Brutus and Cassius.
Who is Antony?
This word means honorable or morally good, often used to describe Brutus.
What is noble?
Who gives the famous funeral speech beginning with “Friends, Romans, countrymen”?
Who is Antony?
The play suggests that too much ambition can lead to this.
What is destruction?
This famous phrase is said after Brutus joins the conspirators against Caesar.
What is “Et tu, Brute?”
This character is Caesar’s wife, who warns him not to go to the Senate.
Who is Calpurnia?
This word means to persuade or convince someone to do something.
What is manipulate?
What appears to Brutus in his tent before the battle at Philippi?
What is Caesar’s ghost?
The citizens are easily influenced, showing the danger of this theme.
What is manipulation?
After Caesar’s death, Rome falls into a series of these.
What are civil wars?
This character is Brutus’s wife, who worries about his secretive behavior.
Who is Portia?