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juile ceaser
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English
10th Grade
03/19/2013

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symbolism
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person place or object or an activity that stands for something itself.
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antagomist
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is a principle character force opposition to protangonist.
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protaganist
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(the hero of the story) main character in of liturature.
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flashback
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is an account of a conursation an episode or an event that happen at the biggily of an story
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motif
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recurring structurs,contrasts or literery devices that can help to develope and inform the texts major themes
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allusion
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an allusion is an indirect to famous person ,places, event , or literary work
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situation irony
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a contrast between what a reader or character expects and what actually happeneds.
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dramatic irony
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where thr reader or veiwers knows something that s character dosent know.
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blank verse
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a form of unrhymed iambuc pentameter favored by many english poets
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calphurnia
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1.caesar's wife.
2. calupurnia invests great authority in omens and portents.
3. she warns Caesar against going to the senate on the ides of march ,since she has had terrible nightmares and heard reports of many bad omens.
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antony
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1. friend of caesar
2.claims allegiance to brutus
3.engages masterful rhetorie to stir the crowd to revolt against the conspirators.
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portia
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1.brutus's wife
2. she is upset to find him so reluctant to speak his mind when she finds him troubled.
3. brutus later hears that portia has killed herself.
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caesar
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1. roman general
2.declined the crown 3times
3.he ignores in omens and threats agsinst his life.
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cassius
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1. longtime acquaintaonce of ceasar
2. dislikes caesar god like view
3. think caesar should die.
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brutus
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1.believed strongly in a government guided by the votes of senators.
2.while brutus loved ceasar as a friend opposed any single man aquictating.
3. his sense of honor made it easy for caeser's enemies to minipulate him.
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who would play roles of girls and women in the theatre of shakespeare's
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boys played girl/women's roles.
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most plays were performed where
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the globe thearter
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how did shakespeare learned about julius Caesar
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history
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what did they do for the costumes and the scenery
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elaborate costumes on stage, but little or no scenery
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who could go to the performents
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plays were performed for all social classes.
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Strato
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Pindarus
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Soothsayer
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1. the dreamer
2. the one who warns him about the ides of march.
3. the dream tells caesar three time about the ides of march.
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Cicero
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1.his one of the guy that want to kill caesar
2. the see the good in everthing never in the storms
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Decius
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1.friend to caesar but from a distance
2.the frist one to stab caesar
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Lepidus
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1.friend to caesar but from a distances
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Artemidorous
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1. the sutior
2. who want casear to that they where going to kill him.
3.a friend to soothsayer
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Casca
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1.enemine to caesar
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Octavius
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1.an enemine to caesar
2.was the other one who stabed caesar.
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Titinius
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1.an enemine to caesar
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