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CAESAR
characters and terms
term or ? | answer |
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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anachronism | out of date, clocks and chimneys |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 |