Julius Caesar: Loyal, loving, ambitious, or fickle.
What is ambitious?
100
Caesar's ghost, for example.
What is a dramatic convention?
100
Shakespeare writes into the play that Caesar was deaf in one ear. He includes this handicap to: __________________________________.
What is show the audience Caesar was a human being with human weaknesses?
200
Tragedies, comedies and histories
What are the genres of Shakespearean dramas?
200
"Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look./ He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous."
Who is Caesar?
200
Decius Brutus: Brave, manipulative, patriotic or jealous.
What is manipulative?
200
Brutus' trust in others, for example.
What is a tragic flaw?
200
What Cassius originally says he'll do if Caesar becomes king.
What is kill himself?
300
Susannah, Judith and Hamnet
What were William Shakespeare's children's names?
300
"For Antony is but a limb of Caesar."
Who is Brutus?
300
Marc Antony: Cowardly, demented, vengeful or athletic.
What is vengeful?
300
A clock striking in 44 B.C. (when there were no such things as clocks).
What is an anachronism?
300
The definition of a soliloquy.
What is a speech in which a character expesses his/her innermost thoughts to an audience while he/she is alone on stage?
400
A poet, playwright and an actor.
What were William Shakespeare's job titles?
400
"This was the noblest Roman of them all."
Who is Antony?
400
Cassius: Weak-minded, jealous, brave, or loving.
What is jealous?
400
"But Brutus says he was ambitious,/ And Brutus is an honorable man."
What is verbal irony?
400
At the start of Act I, scene iii, Casca sees fire in the sky, lions roaming the streets and an owl in the marketplace at daytime. These strange phenomena support the ________ of natural disorder.
What is a motif?
500
A prominent businessman.
How was Shakespeare's father described?
500
"For let the gods so speed me, as I love/ The name of honor, more than I fear death."
Who is Brutus?
500
Portia: Strong-willed, honest, jealous, or manipulative.
What is strong-willed?
500
"Let us carve him as a dish fit for the gods/ not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds."
What is a simile?
500
Their lines are written in prose vs. verse (blank verse)
What is how can we tell the difference between the upper class and commoners through their speech?