Julius Caesar
How does Portia die?
What is swallowing hot coals?
The title of the play is an example of which literary device?
What is irony?
The final passage is an example of which literary device?
"He fell in October 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report confined itself to the single sentence: All quiet on the Western Front."
What is irony?
commonplace, stale, or trite remark
(platitude, plagiarism, compunction, conflagration)
What is platitude?
majestic, inspiring admiration and respect
(indulgent, august, elated, trenchant)
What is august?
What does it mean to have "an itching palm?"
What is being greedy?
According to Mrs. Hale, what was Minnie's life like?
What is - lonely, living in a gloomy home without children and her cold husband as her only company?
Which literally device is illustrated in the passage below?
"Whenever I hear a shell coming, I drop down on one knee with the pan and the pancakes, and duck behind the wall of the window."
(choices: comic relief, foreshadowing, irony, metaphor)
What is comic relief?
to stick out or thrust forward
(misconstrue, allude, placate, protrude)
What is protrude?
wildfire in forest
(conflagration, potent, stark, pretext)
What is conflagration?
Decius Brutus reinterprets Calphurnia's dream by saying:
What is - Romans thrive off of Caesar's reviving blood?
What does the canary most likely represent?
What is symbolizes Minnie during her teenage years?
"It is not against men that we fling our bombs, what do we know of men in this moment when Death is hunting us down - now, for the first time in three days we can oppose him."
What is personification?
a good for nothing
(misnomer, wastrel, allure, respite)
harmless, inoffensive
(applicable, stentorian, innocuous, exuberant)
What is innocuous?
Calphurnia suffers from what "sterile curse"?
What is her inability to have children?
How would you describe the men's attitudes towards the women?
What is quick to dismiss the women's concerns and ideas?
"We sit opposite one another, Kat and I, two soldiers in shabby coats, cooking a goose in the middle of the night. We don't talk much, but I believe we have a more complete communion with one another than even lovers have."
(Choices: the nature of friendship during war, the brutality of war, the gratitude for good supplies, the peace found in nature)
What is the nature of friendship during war?
repayment for wrongs
(wastrel, allure, retribution, misnomer)
What is retribution?
to expound or explicate
(elucidate, loll, rescind, whet)
What is elucidate?
How does Brutus die?
What is running into his own sword?
The erratic stitching of the quilt implies that Mrs. Wright....
What is becoming very distressed and nervous?
The following passage is an example of what literary device?
"On the way we passed a shelled school-house. Stacked up against its longer side is a high double wall of yellow, unpolished, brand-new coffins/"
What is foreshadowing?
yielding to the wishes or demands of others
(indulgent, callous, clandestine, indelible)
slander or libel
(fracas, defamation, abrasive, superficial)
What is defamation?