Key Terms
Who said what?
Themes, Motifs & Symbols
Key Facts
Who did what?
100
Soothsayer warns Caesar to beware the Ides of March. This is an example of what literary device?
What is commend?
100
"Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look."
Who is Caesar?
100
Objects, characters, figures, or colors used to represent abstract ideas or concepts.
What is a symbol?
100
March 15
What is Ides of March?
100
Caesar's friend and fellow conspirator.
Who is Brutus?
200
At first, Cassius uses this form of persuasion to win Brutus to the side of the conspirators.
What is flattery?
200
"Beward the Ides of March."
Who is the Soothsayer?
200
Recurring ideas, images or literary devices that can help to develop text’s major themes.
What is a motif?
200
Three times
How many times did Caesar turn down the crown?
200

He brought the letters and threw them in Brutus' window.

Who is Cinna?

300
What are the names of the two noble men that criticize the commoners for praising Caesar and demand that they disperse and remove streetside decorations.
Who are Flavius and Marullus?
300
"I do fear the people chose Caesar for their king."
Who is Brutus?
300

Anachronism-What is it and give an example.

An object used out of its appropriate time period in a play. Eg. Clock and Doublet

300
Rome
Where does the story take place?
300

Cassius

Who was the instigator of the conspirators?

400
Who perceives the approaching storm as an omens, hinting that something terrible is coming.
Who is Casca?
400
"I know that virtue to be in you Brutus."
Who is Cassius?
400
superstitious events that could be considered as motifs
What are omens?
400
Roman citizens were divided into two categories: Name them and describe them. (Double Jeopardy)
Particians: Noblemen of elevated status. They were landowners. Plebeans: farmers, merchants, tradesmen, commoners.
400
The reasons Brutus is torn in Act I
He is a defender of the Republic and does not want Caesar to become dictator.
500
Name two reasons Caesar raises concern about Cassius?
He thinks too much/ he has a lean and hungry look.
500
"When Caesar says,'Do This,' it is performed?"
Who is Antony?
500
An early scene that provides the build-up and background for a play
What is exposition?
500

When Rome expanded into new territory. They would make the country's people ________.

Roman citizens

500
Offered Caesar the crown
Who is Mark Antony?
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