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| anachronism | out of date, clocks and chimneys |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