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plebeians   commoners, the peeps  
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person who manipulates Brutus with words   Cassius  
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Stoic and loyal   Portia  
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called the commoners "blocks" and "stones" and took down decorations   Marrelus and Flavilus  
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main concern is the good of Rome   Brutus  
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tells the future, the "truth"   soothsayer  
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manipulates plebeians with his oration   Antony  
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the most unkindest cut of all   Brutus  
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fickle, change their minds a lot   commoners  
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has a letter for Caesar   Artemidorus  
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Killed because of his bad poerty   Cinna  
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keeps visiting Brutus   Caesar's ghost  
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feast or celebration starting play   Lupercal  
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anachronism   out of date, clocks and chimneys  
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apostrophe   O Death, O War, O Spirit of Casear  
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soliloguy   thoughts revealed while character is alone  
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pun   play on words, cobble and cobbler, sole and soul  
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foil character   a character that makes another's characteristics stand out, opposites, Barney and Andy  
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static character   one that does not change  
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dynamic character   one that changes throughout the play  
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three who have committed suicide or had someone kill them   Titinius, Cassius, Brutus  
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tries to protect Brutus   Lucilius  
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the outcast of the new triumvirate   Lepidus  
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sent to talk Caesar into going to the capitol   Decius  
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scene of battle   Phillipi  
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person banished by Caesar   Publius Cimber  
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took decorations off Caesar's statues   Marullus and Flavius  
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prose   how commoners speech is written  
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Describes Caesar's crown rejection   Casca  
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a soft and hard foot   iambic  
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barren   Calphurnia  
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countenance   face  
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acting as if one of the "regular" people in order to persuade   plain folks appeal  
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a question asked to make a point   rhetorical  
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internal conflict   man vs self  
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describing something bad in a positive way   euphemism  
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opposite situations or description that are both true   paradox  
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I came. I saw. I conquered.   parallelism  
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a play with a hero whose flaw brings about imminent death, destruction, or downfall   tragedy  
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the storms, ravens, and supernatural occurances   foreshadowing and symbolism  
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unrhymed iambic pentameter   blank verse  
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three parallelisms in a row   tricolon  
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no longer used   archaic  
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