Figurative Language
1.) “Truly, sir, all that I live by is the awl.”
a.) simile
b.) personification
c.) allegory
d.) pun
e.) oxymoron
“But, O, grief,
where hast thou led me...”
a.) metaphor
b.) allusion
c.) apostrophe
d.) simile
e.) hyperbole
External Conflict
The struggle between a literary or dramatic character and an outside force.
Prose
Any writing that follows the conventions of speech and language.
Who are Marullus and Flavius?
Tribunes
“These growing feathers plucked from Caesar’s wing
Will make him fly an ordinary pitch,
Who else would soar above the view of men
And keep us all in servile fearfulness.”
a.) simile
b.) metaphor
c.) personification
d.) pun
e.) parallel structure
“Poor man, I know he would not be a wolf
but that he sees the Romans are sheep;
he were no lion, were not Romans hinds.”
a.) apostrophe
b.) metaphor
c.) allusion
d.) anachronism
e.) parody
Simile
Comparison of two things using "like", "so", "than", or "as".
Internal Conflict
A psychological struggle that takes place within a character, caused by their own emotions, fears, conflicting desires, or mental illnesses.
Why do they want to drive the commoners from the street?
They want to hinder the celebration of Caesar's victory.
“Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
like a Colossus, and we petty men
walk under his huge legs and peep about
to find ourselves dishonorable graves.”
a.) simile
b.) metaphor
c.) personification
d.) pun
e.) anachronism
“Caesar cried ‘Help me, Cassius, or I sink!”
I, as Aeneas, our great ancestor,
did from the flames of Troy upon his shoulder
the old Anchises bear, so from the waves of Tiber
did I the tired Caesar.”
a.) simile
b.) allusion
c.) paradox
d.) blank verse
e.) inversion
Soliloquy
An act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play.
Pun
A "play on words"
What does the soothsayer warn Caesar of?
The Ides of March
“I have seen tempests, when the scolding winds
have rived the knotty oaks, and I have seen
th’ ambitious ocean swell and rage and foam...”
a.) simile
b.) metaphor
c.) personification
d.) pun
e.) anachronism
“Vexed I am
Of late with passions of some difference,
Conceptions only proper to myself,
Which give some soil perhaps to my behaviors.”
a.) dirt
b.) grime
c.) stain
d.) blemish
e.) harm
Blank Verse
Verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter
Tragedy
A genre that focuses around a noble character who struggles against strong external challenges.
What sickness does Caesar have?
Epilepsy
And do you now put on your best attire?
And do you now cull out a holiday?
And do you now strew flowers on his way...”
a.) anaphora
b.) metaphor
c.) paradox
d.) rhetorical shift
e.) allegory
“Who is it in the press that calls on me?”
I hear a tongue, shriller than all the music,
Cry ‘Caesar’ Speak; Caesar is turned to hear.”
a.) street
b.) reporters
c.) common people
d.) crowd
e.) senate
Iambic Pentameter
Iambic pentameter is a type of metric line used in traditional English poetry and verse drama. Consists of ten syllables per line.
Iambic Meter
An iamb can be made up of one word with two syllables or two different words.
Ex:The bird has flown away.
According to Casca, what are the senators planning to do to Caesar the next day?
Make him king.