Terms to Know
Plot
Conspirators and Characters
Ethos, Logos,
Pathos
Say What?
100
The art of effective speaking or writing.
What is rhetoric?
100
In Act I Scene ii, ____ tells Brutus about saving Caesar from the Tiber River, in an attempt to portray him as ____.
Who is Cassius?
100
This character warns Caesar of his terrible fortune during the feast of Lupercal.
Who is the Soothsayer?
100
The following appeal comes from Antony: "And, being men, bearing the will of Caesar, It will inflame you, it will make you mad!"
What is pathos?
100
"You will compel me then, to read the will?"
Who is Mark Antony?
200
A remark in a play by a character that is intended to be heard by the audience but unheard by other characters in the play.
What is an aside?
200
The soothsayer appears for the first time in Act I, and bids Caesar to do what?
What is "Beware the Ides of March?"
200
This character is the first to stab Caesar. He shouts, "Speak hands for me!"
Who is Casca?
200
"I was born free as Caesar. So were you. We both have fed as well, and we can both Endure the winter’s cold as well as he."
What is logos?
200
"Who here i so base that would be a bondman? If any, speak; for him have I offended."
Who is Brutus?
300
An error in argument.
What is a fallacy?
300
"Et tu, Brute?" The translation for these latin words.
What is "and you, Brutus?" -or- "You too, Brutus?"
300
This character helps deliver the forgeries to Brutus' home. Lenny Kravitz might appreciate his name.
Who is Cinna?
300
"I know that virtue to be in you, Brutus, As well as I do know your outward favor. Well, honor is the subject of my story."
What is ethos?
300
"I know not what may fall. I like it not." (After Mark Antony is permitted to speak at the funeral.)
Who is Cassius?
400
An aspect of character that leads to their downfall, often found in main characters.
What is a tragic flaw?
400
During this speech, Brutus resolves to "Think [Caesar] as a serpent's egg/ And kill him in the shell."
What is the soliloquy?
400
The scholar who "does not finish what other men begin."
Who is Cicero?
400
"Kind souls, what weep you when you but behold Our Caesar's vesture wounded? Look you here, Here is himself, marred as you see with traitors."
What is pathos?
400
"Doth not Brutus bootless kneel?"
Who is Julius Caesar?
500
Julius Caesar is set in ancient Rome: 44-42 B.C. "He plucked me ope his doublet and offered them his throat to cut."
What is anachronism?
500
Portia eats these as an excruciating way to claim her own life.
What are hot coals?
500
This character arrives to Rome after hearing the news of Caesar's death. Mark Antony is delighted by his arrival.
Who is Octavius Caesar?
500
"Hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear: believe me for mine honour, and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe"
What is ethos?
500
"O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, that I am meek and gentle with these butchers!"
Who is Mark Antony?
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