Show:
Act I
Act II
Act III (1)
Act III (2)
Literary Devices
100
What holiday is being celebrated?
What is Lupercal
100
Who is Brutus's wife?
What is Portia
100
What excuse do the conspirators use to get close to Caesar at the Capitol?
What is petition for Metellus Cimber's brother to be allowed to come back to Rome.
100
What did the conspirators run around the streets crying after thay murder Caesar?
What is "Peace, freedom, liberty!"
100
"Brutus is an honorable man" is an example of what literary device?
What is verbal irony (sarcasm)
200
With what illness is Caesar afflicted?
What is epilepsy
200
Who is Brutus's servant?
What is Lucious
200
What does Caesar say (in Latin) to Brutus when he stabs hime?
What is "Et tu, Brute?"
200
What does Antony first do when he sees the conspirators begin to stab Caesar?
What is runs home.
200
Give one example of how Antony use pathos in his speech.
What is he cries; he shows the crowd the bloody body; he tells them that Caesar loved them (the will)
300
What literary device is "I am a mender of bad soles"?
What is a pun
300
What is the final push that makes Brutus agree to the assassination?
What is he thinks the people of Rome want him to do it. (Cassius forged letters)
300
Who is the first of the conspirators to stab Caesar?
Who is Casca.
300
What is the main reason Brutus gives in his speech to the people about why he murdered Caesar?
What is that if Caesar lived and ruled as dictator there would be no freedom; men would live as slaves.
300
Give one example of how Antony uses logos in his speech to disprove the idea that Caesar was "ambitious" (power hungry).
What is he says Caesar denied the crown; he reads the will
400
What is the significance of the storm at the end of Act I?
What is It is a bad omen foreshadowing Caesar's assassination.
400
Which one of the conspirators is supposed to make sure that Caesar gets to the Capitol on the day they plan to assassinate him?
Who is Decius
400
Define rhetoric.
Rhetoric is persuasive language.
400
Who is unjustly murdered at the end of Act III?
Who is Cinna
400
What are the opening lines of Antony's speech?
What is "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears..."
500
Cassius's reason for wanting Caesar dead is...
What is he is jealous; he thinks he should be ruler; he thinks Caesar is the weakest of all his powerful friends.
500
Who has uncovered the plot and is waiting in the streets to give Caesar a list with the names of the conspirators?
Who is Artemidorus
500
What is one argument that Antony gives in order to show the crowd that Caesar was not ambitious (power hungry)
Possible answers: brought captives to Rome for ransom money; refused the crown three times; he left the people land and riches in his will
500
What two people await Antony at Caesar's house?
Who are Octavius and Lepidus
500
What persuasive device (rhetoric) does Antony use when he asks: "Was this ambition?" or "Does this seem ambitious?"
What is rhetorical question