Characters
Shakespearean Language
Vocabulary
Julius Caesar: The Story
Vocabulary
100
Friend of Caesar, senator, and eloquent orator.
Who is Antony?
100
Yonder
What is OVER THERE?
100
The rational principle that governs and develops the universe.
What is LOGOS?
100
3 people that do not agree with Caesar being leader.
Who are Cassius, Casca, and Brutus? (Flavius, Murellus, Cinna)
100
The tragic hero comes to some sort of understanding of what went wrong or of what was really going on before he comes to his end.
What is HERO HAS INCREASED AWARENESS?
200
Wife of Caesar.
Who is Calphurnia?
200
Ne'er
What is NEVER?
200
One must have a high position to fall from.
What is NOBLE STATURE?
200
What is the ides of March? Why is it important to our story?
March 15th. Caesar is warned to watch out on this day.
200
Exaggerated language used to make a point.
What is HYPERBOLE?
300
Most powerful man in Rome.
Who is Julius Caesar?
300
Ere
What is BEFORE?
300
The audience cannot be left feeling that the tragic hero got what he deserved.
What is PUNISHMENT EXCEEDS THE CRIME?
300
Who wrote Julius Caesar? First AND last name to get credit.
William Shakespeare
300
The quality or power in literature evoking a feeling of pity or sympathy.
What is PATHOS?
400
Friend of Caesar, appointed by him to high office in the Roman government.
Who is Brutus?
400
Bid or Bade
What is ASK or DIRECT?
400
Language that often includes bias and hyperbole and may distort the truth to influence the public.
What is PROPAGANDA?
400
Who has to be convinced to betray Caesar?
Brutus
400
The tragic hero falls because he chooses one course of action over another.
What is FREE CHOICE?
500
A conspirator.
Who is Casca?
500
Thither
What is THERE?
500
The moral element in dramatic literature that determines a character's action rather than his or her thought or emotion.
What is ETHOS?
500
As Scene iii starts, Casca is VERY frightened...why?
There is a horrible storm happening.
500
The tragic hero must "fall" due to some problem in his own personality.
What is TRAGIC FLAW?