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JRA Julius Caesar
Characters, terms, + plot of Julius Caesar
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A piece of literature in which a main character suffers a major downfall that always leads to death. | tragedy |
| The...of a tragedy is of...birth, has a..., experiences an..., and suffers a.... | tragic hero; high and noble; harmatia; anagnorisis; peripeteia |
| The tragic flaw of a tragic hero. | harmatia |
| The moment of awareness that a tragic hero experiences right before death. | anagnorisis |
| The reversal of fortune that a tragic hero suffers. | peripeteia |
| The setting of Julius Caesar. | Ancient Rome around the Roman Capitol; March of 44 B.C. |
| A governing body of three. | triumvirate |
| The three people who made up the first triumvirate. | Crassus, Pompey, Julius Caesar |
| The creator of the tragedy Julius Caesar. | William Shakespeare |
| Julius Caesar is a popular and powerful..., is...in one ear, is aging in his..., is selectively..., has the..., has a...marriage, and has the tragic flaw of.... | Roman general; deaf; 60s; superstitious; falling sickness; barren; hubris/ambition |
| The wife of Julius Caesar who is very strong and intuitive. | Calphurnia |
| Marcus Brutus is a..., is very...and rational, is a member of the..., is highly..., and is closely aligned with.... | praetor; balanced; stoic; respected; Pompey |
| The wife of Marcus Brutus and the daughter of Cato. | Portia |
| The anti-hero who is envious of Julius Caesar and comes up with a plan to kill Caesar. | Caius Cassius |
| The young, smart, athletic man who is loyal to Julius Caesar, runs in the footrace of the Feast of Lupercal, and avenges Caesar's death. | Mark Antony |
| Two tribunes in the beginning of Julius Caesar who are scold the plebeians for rejoicing over Caesar's victory over Pompey's sons in Spain. | Marullus and Flavius |
| A feast of fertility. | Feast of Lupercal |
| The person who warns Julius Caesar to beware the ides of March. | soothesayer |
| These two people take down decorations that celebrate Julius Caesar's victory. | Marullus and Flavius |
| This man touches Calphurnia to shake to get rid of the curse of Julius Caesar's barren marriage. | Mark Antony |
| This man lacks the quick spirit that is in Mark Antony. | Marcus Brutus |
| This man's ancestors fought the Tarquin kings for the republic of Rome. | Marcus Brutus |
| Marcus Brutus's tragic flaw. | Easily manipulated |
| There are...acts in Shakespeare's plays,...scenes in each act, and...lines in each scene. | 5; any number of; any number of |
| A metrical foot consisting of two syllables, the first one being unaccented and the second one being accented. | iamb |
| The term that suggests that there are 10 syllables per line in Shakespeare's plays. | iambic pentameter |
| Brutus's self-proclaimed virtue. | honor |
| Julius Caesar almost drowned in the..., and...had to help get him out. | Tiber River; Caius Cassius |
| This man fears that the plebeians choose Julius Caesar for their king. | Marcus Brutus |
| Julius Caesar got a... while in..., and he was...pretty badly, according to.... | fever; Spain; shaking; Caius Cassius |
| This man tells Marcus Brutus that unless you take action against more powerful people, you will remain in a bad situation. | Caius Cassius |
| Julius Caesar thinks...thinks too much and is a...man, but...tells him not to worry about this.... | Caius Cassius; dangerous; Mark Antony; noble Roman |
| This man offered Julius Caesar a crown three times. | Mark Antony |
| A dramatic convention featuring one speaker alone on stage that allows the audience insight into the speaker's innermost thoughts and feelings. | soliloquy |
| This man forges letters to convince Marcus Brutus to join the conspiracy. | Caius Cassius |
| The pun that is used in Caius Cassius's soliloquy. | mettle/metal |
| The...order involves the gods and goddesses, while the...involves kings, queens, and other rulers. | cosmic; social |
| The cosmic and social orders are balanced if the king is... and has achieved his status.... | sound-minded; honorably |
| The imbalance of the cosmic and social orders causes.... | crazy, natural phenomena |
| An old senator of Rome whom Metellus Cimber wants to join the conspiracy. | Cicero |
| The fat conspirator who informs Caius Cassius about the strange happenings. | Casca |
| The strange happenings were a slaves's...caught on fire but was..., a ...roamed around the Capitol but ignored..., women reported seeing...walking up and down the streets, and an...was hooting in the marketplace at.... | left hand; not scorched; lion; Casca; men on fire; owl; noon |
| This man believes that the strange happenings are because Julius Caesar will become king of Rome. | Caius Cassius |
| These two men will kill themselves if they have to to stop Julius Caesar from becoming a tyrant. | Caius Cassius and Casca |
| A conspirator and a friend of Caius Cassius who will deliver the letters to Marcus Brutus that Cassius forged. | Cinna |
| The names of all eight conspirators. | Caius Cassius, Trebonius, Metellus Cimber, Casca, Cinna, Decius Brutus, Marcus Brutus, Caius Ligarius |
| A term that means out of the time. | anachronism |
| The servant of Marcus Brutus. | Lucius |
| This word means death in Shakespeare's plays. | sleep |
| If you get a good night's sleep in Shakespeare's plays, you have this king of mind. | innocent mind |
| This man thinks making an oath shows weakness. | Marcus Brutus |
| The conspirator whose brother his in exile by Julius Caesar and who wants Cicero to join the conspiracy. | Metellus Cimber |
| This man thinks that Cicero never follows the orders of others. | Marcus Brutus |
| This man thinks that Mark Antony will be feeble and will not be a threat after Julius Caesar is killed. | Marcus Brutus |
| This man fears Mark Antony and believes he will be a threat later. | Caius Cassius |
| The conspirator who will flatter Julius Caesar to convince him to go to the Roman Capitol. | Decius Brutus |
| The place where the conspirators will first meet. | Pompey's porch |
| This person has a young and innocent mind. | Lucius |
| Portia is upset with...because he has been...her, leaving the...and walking around the house, and saying that he is...when he really is not. | Marcus Brutus; ignoring; bed; sick |
| This is what Portia feels like when Marcus Brutus ignores her. | Brutus's harlot |
| This person stabbed herself in her thigh to prove her strength and constancy to Marcus Brutus. | Portia |
| The last conspirator that is no longer sick when he hears that Marcus Brutus is now a conspirator. | Caius Ligarius |
| This person has screamed bloody murder in her sleep. | Calphurnia |
| The watchmen have reported seeing a...giving birth in the streets, the...waking up from their...,...fighting in the sky with the sounds of...,...drizzling down on the Capitol, and...shrieking. | lion; dead; graves; warriors; horses; blood; ghosts |
| This person dreams of blood running from Julius Caesar's statue with lusty Romans washing their hands in the blood and smiling. | Calphurnia |
| This conspirator interprets Calphurnia's dream as that the lusty Romans were sucking reviving blood. | Decius Brutus |
| These weapons were used to kill Julius Caesar. | daggers |
| A short dramatic convention that has many characters on stage, allows the audience into the character's thoughts, and allows only the audience to hear it. | aside |
| This conspirator has an aside not too soon before Julius Caesar's death. | Trebonius |
| A teacher of rhetoric who writes a letter for Julius Caesar to read and understand who the conspirators are and what they are planning on doing. | Artimedorus |
| This conspirator wants to make sure that Julius Caesar does not read Artimedorus's letter. | Decius Brutus |
| The man who the conspirators watch closely because he almost seems to know the plan on killing Julius Caesar. | Popilius |
| The brother of Metellus Cimber. | Publius Cimber |
| This man will not free Publius Cimber from exile. | Julius Caesar |
| This man says he is as constant as the Northern Star, but is killed a few seconds after. | Julius Caesar |
| The first conspirator to stab Julius Caesar. | Casca |
| Julius Caesar's anagnorisis. | Realizes that Marcus Brutus is a conspirator |
| The two people who are considerate of Publius (not Publius Cimber). | Caius Cassius and Marcus Brutus |
| A Mark Antony requests four things of the conspirators: to have them...him now if they were going to, to have him bring...to the marketplace, to allow him to speak at..., and to tell him why they.... | kill; Julius Caesar's body; Caesar's funeral; killed Caesar |
| The nephew and adopted son of Julius Caesar. | Octavius Caesar |
| Mark Antony has one of these that tells about how destruction will come to Rome. | soliloquy |
| Writing used for the commoners (quotes). | prose |
| Another term for poetry that is used with the upper class, is most of Shakespeare's plays, and appeals to vanity. | verse |
| A form of personification that directly addresses an abstract concept of inanimate thing. | apostrophe |
| The use of similar grammatical structure for two or more ideas that is most often used with clauses. | parallelism |
| A form of parallelism where the grammatical structures balance one another out. | balanced sentence structure |
| The repetition of a word, a phrase, a sentence, etc. for effect. | repetition |
| A question without an answer that speakers use for effect. | rhetorical question |
| Appeals that hit people in the heart, invoke values such as family and love of country, and are used frequently. | emotional appeals |
| Appeals that are meaningful and significant to people's minds, are used for an educated audience, and are used occasionally. | logical or rational appeals |
| The guiding force of any form of communication. | purpose and audience |
| The man who speaks first at Julius Caesar's funeral. | Marcus Brutus |
| This man has the advantage over the plebeians at the funeral. | Mark Antony |
| The number of drachmas that Julius Caesar supposedly left for each plebeian. | 75 |
| These people will burn the houses of the conspirators, smash their windows, and kill all of them. | plebeians |
| The man who is confused with one of the conspirators. | Cinna the Poet |
| The type of writing that is used for Marcus Brutus's funeral oration. | prose |
| The appeals that are expressed in Marcus Brutus's funeral oration. | logical or rational appeals |
| The type of writing that is used for Mark Antony's funeral oration. | verse |
| The appeals that are expressed in Mark Antony's funeral oration. | emotional appeals |
| The three people who make up the new triumvirate. | Mark Antony, Octavius Caesar, Amelius Lepidus |
| This man does not like Amelius Lepidus. | Mark Antony |
| This man is now becoming a tyrant. | Mark Antony |
| This man did not give Marcus Brutus gold to pay for his legions. | Caius Cassius |
| This person kills herself by swallowing charcoal. | Portia |
| The place where Caius Cassius and Marcus Brutus will fight Mark Antony and Octavius Caesar. | Philippi |
| This man's spirit appears to Marcus Brutus. | Julius Caesar |
| The day when Caius Cassius and Marcus Brutus fight Mark Antony and Octavius Caesar. | Caius Cassius's birthday |
| The man who Caius Cassius believes has been sent to his death. | Titinius |
| The bondsman of Caius Cassius who is ordered by Cassius to kill Cassius. | Pindarus |
| The man who kills himself after seeing Caius Cassius dead. | Titinius |
| The unsaid meaning of a phrase. | subtext |
| This man spoke a subtext of Caius Cassius misunderstanding everything. | Titinius |
| The man who says to Mark Antony that he is Marcus Brutus, even though he really is not. | Lucilius |
| The soldier of Marcus Brutus is ordered to hold Brutus's sword while Brutus runs upon it. | Strato |
| This man says that Marcus Brutus was the noblest Roman of them all. | Mark Antony |
| This man inherits all of Julius Caesar's power, land, and wealth. | Octavius Caesar |
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