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Julius Caesar
Mrs. Patton
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English
9th Grade
04/13/2010

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What is a pun? (example)
Definition
play on words. Mender of Souls
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What is a soliloquy?
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a solo speech
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What is the setting at the opening of the play?
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on the streets of rome
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Who is involved with the conspiracy in act I?
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Cassius
Casca
Cinna
Decius Brutus
Trebonius
Metellus Cimber
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What is anachronism? example.
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against time. (no clocks in ancient rome)
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What is verbal irony? example
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saying something obviously not meant. "Brutus was an honorable man" -Mark Antony
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What is dramatic irony? example
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the audience knows what the characters do not. the letter from artemidorus
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What is an aside? example
Definition
the actor speaks to the audience
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What happened to Cinna the poet?
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they new we was a conspiritor so they tore him limb from limb.
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Brutus accusses Cassius of _________.
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itching palms (taking bribes.)
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Who is the protagonist of the play?
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Brutus: main character of play (but its really aboutJ JC)
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Who is the antagonist of the play?
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Cassius (the main conspiriter) causes most of the stuff
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Two things brutus will never do?
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Suicide,
Go against rome,
accept bribes
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Who is young Cato?
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Brother of Portia; dies on battlefeild
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Who does Lucilius pretend to be? What happens?
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Brutus; taken as prisoner of war
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"He thinks too much: such men are dangerous" Who said, about who?
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Caesar, about Cassius
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I have a man's mind but a woman's might" Who said?
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Portia
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"Et tu, Brute! Then fall Caesar" Who said?
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Caesar (third person)
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"Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears." Who said?
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Antony
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"This was the noblest Roman of them all" Who said? About who?
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Antony about Brutus. NOT TRUE.
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What impact did rhetoric have on roman people?
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they were swayed by simple words.
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Fate vs. freewill? Examples.
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Caesar dying, he couldnt prevent... they would get him eventually. Freewill: the conspiritors actually doing it themselves.
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Internal conflicts? Examples
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Brutus doesn't know what is the best for his country
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