Who Said It?
"Beware the ides of March."
Who is the Soothsayer?
"Let me have men about me that are fat"
Who is Caesar?
This character persuades Brutus that Caesar's growing power threatens Rome.
Who is Cassius?
“He doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus” is an example of this device.
What is simile?
Calpurnia’s dream of Caesar’s statue bleeding from many wounds is an example of this device that suggests future tragedy.
What is foreshadowing?
Brutus repeatedly calls himself “honorable” and appeals to his reputation as a trusted Roman to justify Caesar’s death.
What is ethos?
What act was Caesar murdered in?
What is Act III?
"Et tu, Brute?"
Who is Caesar?
"I love the name of honor more than I fear death."
Who is Brutus?
This character stabs themselves in the thigh in order to prove their strength.
Who is Portia?
"Noble Brutus" is an example of this rhetorical device.
What is epithet?
Casca’s description of lions roaming the streets and men on fire appeals to the senses and creates vivid mental pictures. This is an example of this device.
What is imagery?
Antony shows Caesar’s bloodied cloak to the crowd to create an emotional reaction of shock and sympathy.
What is pathos?
In Act I, Mark Antony runs a race at the Feast of Lupercal and is asked by Caesar to touch Calpurnia during the race in order to free her from this condition.
What is infertility?
"Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more."
Who is Brutus?
"Against the Capitol I met a lion,
Who glared upon me and went surly by,
Without annoying me."
Who is Casca?
This character attempts to bring Caesar a letter warning him of the conspiracy.
Who is Artemidorus?
"Friends, Romans, Countrymen" is an example of this rhetorical device.
What is asyndeton?
The audience knows Caesar will be killed at the Capitol, but Caesar believes the conspirators are his friends. This is an example of this device.
What is dramatic irony?
Antony repeatedly calls the conspirators “honorable men” in a way that becomes ironic and stirs anger in the crowd.
What is pathos?
This best describes the genre of theatre Julius Caesar falls into.
What is tragedy?
"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears."
Who is Antony?
"Hence! Home, you idle creatures, get you home! Is this a holiday?"
Who is Flavius?
This character is killed by an angry mob simply because he shares a name with one of the conspirators.
Who is Cinna the Poet?
"Who is here so base that would be a bondman?" is an example of this rhetorical device.
What is rhetorical question?
Brutus and Cassius mention Rome’s past overthrow of King Tarquin to explain why Caesar must be killed. This is this device.
What is allusion?
Antony points out that Caesar refused the crown three times as evidence that he was not ambitious.
What is logos?
What language was spoken in ancient Rome?
What is Latin?
"It was Greek to me."
Who is Casca?
"When beggars die there are no comets seen;
The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes."
Who is Calpurnia?
This character misinterprets a dream about a statue spouting blood and convinces Caesar to attend the Senate meeting.
Who is Decius Brutus?
“I have come to bury Caesar, not to praise him” is an example of this rhetorical device because it contrasts two opposing ideas in a balanced sentence structure.
What is antithesis?
Brutus’s struggle over whether to kill Caesar is an example of this device that shows a character’s struggle within themselves.
What is internal conflict?
Antony uses Caesar’s will—showing he left money and land to the citizens—as evidence that Caesar was generous, not ambitious.
What is logos?
What does the phrase veni, vidi, vici mean?
What is "I came, I saw, I conquered."