Terms
Plot
Quotes
Characters
Tragic Hero
100
aside
What is a remark meant to be heard only by the audience?
100
Caesar requests this of Antony at the race at the start of the play
What is touch Calpurnia to break her sterile curse?
100
"so from the waves of Tiber Did I the tired Caesar. And this man is now become a god?
Who is Cassius?
100
The first to stab
Who is Casca?
100
The tragic story leads up to and includes this
What is the tragic hero's death?
200
grave accent
What is an extra syllable pronounced for the sake of the meter?
200
one of the strange sights seen on the stormy night
What is a slave with his hand on fire, men of fire, a lion giving birth in the street
200
"Oh, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers."
Who is Antony?
200
He follows the philosophy of Stoicism
Who is Brutus?
200
The tragic hero recognizes this, but is too late to fix it before his death.
What is his flaw?
300
a misplaced time element
What is an anachronism?
300
Why Decius tells Caesar that Calpurnia's dream was misinterpreted
What is to get him to the Senate in order to get him killed?
300
"Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more."
Who is Brutus?
300
He wrote a letter containing the names of all of the conspirators.
Who is Artemidorus?
300
A tragedy contains elements of the supernatural, such as this in the play.
What is the ghost of Caesar?
400
pun
What is a joke that plays on two different meanings of a word?
400
itching palm means this
What is greed for gold?
400
"I have made a strong proof of my constancy, giving myself a voluntary wound here in the thigh"
Who is Portia?
400
She had a bad dream about Caesar's death.
Who is Calpurnia?
400
The tragic hero always is someone exceptional. For Brutus, it is his love of ___________.
What is honor?
500
five pairs of syllables, with each pair being unstressed/stressed
What is iambic pentameter?
500
These characters ask people to kill them.
Who are Brutus and Cassius?
500
"Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
Who is Julius Caesar?
500
He saved Caesar from drowning in a swimming race.
Who is Cassius?
500
The tragic hero suffers, as Brutus does when this happens.
What is Portia's death?
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