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Grammar
Literary Terms
Julius Caesar
Rhetoric
Cry, the Beloved Country
100
Correct the following sentence if there is an error: This Christmas, I want to get money, because I am saving up to buy a car.
What is there should be no comma after money because "because" is a subordinating conjunction (starter word for dependent clause - ID)
100
Give the definition of a pun.
What is a play on words
100
Who was Antony appealing to in his funeral speech?
What is the citizens/plebians of Rome
100
The definition of rhetoric.
What is the art of using language persuasively.
100
What does umfundisi mean?
What is pastor
200
Choose the correct form: There/Their is no reason to go to their/they're house!
What is There is no reason to go to their house!
200
Give the definition of an aside.
What is something said by an actor onstage meant only for the audience to hear.
200
What does Calpurnia dream about?
What is Caesar's statue spouting blood and Roman people bathing their hands in it.
200
The definition of pathos.
What is appealing to one's emotions.
200
Who is charged with killing Arthur Jarvis?
What is Absalom Kumalo
300
Correct the following sentence if there is an error: He loved everyone no matter what they did.
What is He loved everyone no matter what he or she did. -OR- He loved all people no matter what they did.
300
Give the definition of dramatic irony. Give an example of dramatic irony.
What is the audience knows something that the characters do not. Something from Oedipus or Julius Caesar
300
The exact quote spoken to Caesar by the Soothsayer
What is "Beware the Ides of March"
300
Give the definition for logos.
What is appealing to one's logic
300
Who does the murderer of Arthur Jarvis blame for his actions?
What is Satan
400
Correct the following sentence if there is an error: To practice my speech I rehearsed it in front of a mirror.
What is To practice my speech, I rehearsed it in front of a mirror.
400
Give the definition of verbal irony. Give an example of verbal irony.
What is the opposite of what is said is what is meant. Antony calling the conspirators "honorable men".
400
The reason Brutus did not want to swear an oath with the conspirators.
What is because he felt that as noble Romans, their word should be good enough.
400
Give the definition of ethos.
What is appealing to one's morals and ethics.
400
Which American president's presence is made known by Alan Paton in the novel?
What is Abraham Lincoln
500
Correctly change the possessive relationship using apostrophes: games of the children night out with the girls toy belonging to it
What is children's games; girls' night out; its toy
500
Give the definition of a soliloquy.
What is a speech made by an actor alone onstage.
500
Why does Cassius not only want but need Brutus in the conspiracy?
What is because Brutus is favored by the people, and Cassius believes that if Brutus is involved in the conspiracy, the people will think the murder of Caesar was for the good of Rome.
500
Pathos, Ethos, or Logos? "But now we turn the page and write a new chaper. And that's what I want to speak about tonight. This election is not an award for past performance. I'm not asking you to vote for me on the basis of the economy we have. Tonight I speak for your support on the basis of the better, fairer, more prosperous America we can build together."
What is ethos.
500
Give an example of an allusion from the story and to what it is alluding.
What is the names Absalom and Peter; biblical reference.