Identify the device where there is advocacy of one course of action or thinking in such a way as to persuade someone to take an opposite course or thought.
What is reverse psychology?
100
Identify the device used in the following: "O world..."
What is apostrophe?
100
Identify the device: "But I am constant as the Northern Star...But there's but one in all doth hold his place."
What is simile as J.C. compares self to star...stressing his constancy and unwillingness to change his mind and pardon Publius Cimber.
100
What happens to Brutus and Cassius after Antony's "funeral speech" where he honors Caesar?
What is they flee?
100
Identify the speaker: "And being men, hearing the will of Caesar, It will inflame you, it will make you mad."
Who is Antony?
200
This device is a figure of speech in which two contrasting ideas are intentionally juxtaposed (paradox), usually through parallel structure (in adjacent phrases, clauses, or sentences)
What is antithesis?
200
Identify the device: "on the Lupercal/I thrice presented him a kingly crown,/ Which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition? Yet Brutus says he was ambitious..."
What is rhetorical question?
200
Identify the device: "I rather choose to wrong the dead, to wrong myself and you, than I will wrong such honorable men."
What is anaphora, verbal irony, and/or reverse psych
200
How does Portia take her own life?
What is she swallows hot coals?
200
Who does Antony compare to a donkey, and in his eyes, not fit to be a leader in their triumvirate?
Who is Lepidus?
300
This device is a figure of speech in which a speaker addresses an inanimate object, idea, or someone absent.
What is apostrophe?
300
Identify the devices when Antony says, "Here is a mourning Rome, a dangerous Rome"
What is anaphora and personification?
300
Antony in his speech to the people of Rome uses flattery, verbal irony, and mockery to appeal to passion. These strategies would fall under ethos, logos, or pathos?
What is pathos?
300
What is the root of the conflict between Cassius and Brutus in Act 4?
What is Cassius thinks Brutus wronged him by publicly disgracing Lucius Pella who took bribes, and Brutus is angry that Cassius has taken bribes, acted dishonorably, and wouldn't give him money to help pay his soldiers.
300
Identify the character who said, "on the Lupercal/I thrice presented him a kingly crown,/ Which he did thrice refuse..."
Who is Antony?
400
Identify the device used which leaves a statement unfinished or to show a character overcome with emotion; typically readers see the em dash used to convey this device.
What is aposiopesis?
400
Identify two devices in the following lines: "And men have lost their reason!--Bear with me; My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar."
What are hyperbole and aposiopesis?
400
Identify two devices: "Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more...Had you rather Caesar were living and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live all free men?"
What is antithesis and rhetorical question and/or logical appeal?
400
Which two characters attempt to warn Caesar of the plot against him?
Who are Artemidorus and the Soothsayer?
400
Who said the following: "So shall he waste his means, weary his soldiers...whilst we, lying still, are full of rest"
Who is Cassius?
500
In this speech given by a character who is alone to convey his thoughts and feelings, the line that says, "That I am meek and gentle with these butchers," shows which device? (also note name of this type of speech)
What is a metaphor and a soliloquy?
500
Identify two devices in the following lines of Antony's speech: "Yet Brutus says he was ambitious. And Brutus is an honourable man."
What are verbal irony and reverse psychology?
500
Determine whether the following lines by Brutus use ethos, logos, or pathos: "Believe me for mine honour, and have respect to mine honor, that you may believe..."
What is ethos, ethical appeal, relying on Brutus' reputation/integrity.
500
Who strikes Caesar first with his dagger? Whose was the "most unkindest cut of all"?
Who is Casca? Who is Brutus?
500
Who says, "Speak your griefs softly...Before the eyes of both our armies here (which should perceive nothing but love from us) Let us not wrangle..."