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"My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, and I must pause till it come back to me"
What is Antony?
100
"I am glad that my weak words have struck but thus much show of fire from Brutus.
What is "Cassius manipulated Brutus to be against Caesar"?
100
"Beware the ides of march."
What is an omen?
100
"If you have tears, prepare to shed them now."
What is pathos?
100
"Et tu Brute! Then fall, Caesar.
What is "shocked by Brutus and allows himself to die"?
200
"Et tu, Brute. Then fall, Caesar"
What is Caesar?
200
"This was the noblest Roman of them all: all the conspirators save only he did that they did in envy of great Caesar; he only, in a in a general honest thought and common good to all, made one of them."
What is "Brutus was respected by Antony"?
200
Cicero was a Roman orator.
What is an allusion?
200
"Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; and Brutus is an honorable man."
What is anaphora?
200
"Our hearts you see not; they are pitiful; and pity to the general wrong of Rome- as fire drives out fire, so pity pity."
What is "doing this for the good of Rome"?
300
"So well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself that of yourself which you yet know not of."
What is Cassius?
300
"Beware the ides of March".
What is "the approachment of Caesar's death"?
300
"These growing feathers pluck'd from Casear's wing will make him fly an ordinary pitch."
What is a metaphor?
300
"Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?"
What is rhetorical question?
300
"That mothers shall but smile when they behold their infants quarter'd with the hands of war?"
What is "showing anger"?
400
"Caesar now be still: I kill'd not thee with half so good a will."
What is Brutus?
400
"Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; he thinks too much: such men are dangerous".
What is "Caesar sees Cassius for who he is"?
400
"And therefore think him as a serpent's egg which, hatch'd, would, as his kind, grow mischievous, and kill him in the shell."
What is a simile?
400
"Have patience, gentle friends, I must not read it."
What is paralepsis?
400
"These growing feathers pluck'd from Caesar's wing will make him fly an ordinary pitch..."
What is "comparing Caesar to bird"?
500
"What mean you, Caesar? think you to walk forth? You shall not stir out of your house today."
What is Calpurnia?
500
On such a full sea we are now afloat; and we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
What is "we need to act now"?
500
"A trade, sir, that, I hope, I may use with a safe conscience; which is, indeed, sir, a mender of bad soles."
What is a pun?
500
"Who is here so base that would be a bondman?"
What is assonance?
500
"And I will look on both indifferently, for let the gods so speed me as I love the name of honou more than I feel death?"
What is "he is an honorable man"?