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| You blocks you stones you worse than senseless things! |
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Speaker: Marullus
Situation: Marullus being angry with the supporters of Caesar because of their constant changing between who they support
Literary Technique: Metaphor |
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| These growing feathers plucked from Caesar's wing |
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Speaker: Flavius
Situation: Talking to the supporters of Caesar and trying to show them what Caesar actually is
Literary Technique: Extended metaphor |
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| So well as by reflection, I, your glass, Will modestly discover yourself that of yourself which you yet know not of. |
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Speaker: Cassius
Situation:Cassius trying to persuade Brutus to go against Caesar
Literary Technique: metaphor |
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| Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world like a collosus. |
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Speaker: Cassius
Situation: Trying to persuade Brutus that Caesar is big and that the people follow him like servants
Literary technique: Simile and Allusion |
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Term
| NO, Caesar hath not it; but you, and I, And honest Casca, we have the falling sickness |
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Speaker: Cassius
Situation: Talking to Brutus and Casca and trying to persuade them to join him in going against Caesar.
Literary Technique: Pun |
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| But for mine own part, it was Greek to me. |
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Speaker: Casca
Situation: After listening to what Cicero had to say.
Literary Technique: Idiom |
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| Now could I, Casca, name to thee a man Most like this dreadful night That thunders, lightens, opens graves, and roar as doth the lion in the capitol; |
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Speaker: Cassius
Situation: Describing what Caesar is like on a street in Rome to the other conspirators
Literary Technique: Similie |
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Term
| But that he sees the Romans are but sheep; he were no lion, were not romans hinds. |
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Speaker: Cassius
Situation: Telling other conspirators what he thinks of Caesar and how he treats his people and thinks they are weak.
Literary Technique: Metaphor |
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Term
| In Pompey's Porch; for now, this fearful night, there is no stir or walking in the streets, and the complexion of the element in favor's like the work we have in hand, Most bloody, fiery, and most terrible. |
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Speaker: Cassius
Situation: Telling of killing Caesar to the other conspirators
Literary technique: Similie |
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| It is the bright day that brings forth the adder. |
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Speaker: Brutus
Situation: Brutus' orchard and him talking of how they must bring down Caesar before he can rise like an "adder" or a snake
Literary Technique: metaphor |
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Term
| The lowliness is young ambitions ladder, whereto the climber-upward turns his face. |
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Speaker: Brutus
Situation: Talking in his orchard of how when Caesar is at the top of the game he will forget everyone that has helped him climb the ladder to get there.
Literary Technique: Metaphor |
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Term
| And therefore think him as a serpent's egg, Which, hatched, would as his kind grow mischievous and kill him in the shell. |
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Speaker: Brutus
Situation: Talking in his orchard of how they must kill Caesar like a serpents egg before he can grow to big and powerful to be stopped.
Literary technique: Similie |
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Term
| For Antony is but a limb of Caesar |
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Definition
Speaker: Brutus
Situation: Brutus telling the men that they shouldn't kill Antony because he is not as important as Caesar.
Literary Technique: Metaphor |
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Term
| Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods |
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Speaker: Brutus
Situation: Brutus talking to his fellow conspirators on how to kill Caesar.
Literary technique: Simile |
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| No Caesar shall not. Danger knows full well that Caesar is more dangerous than he. We are two lions littered in one day. And I the elder and more terrible and Caesar shall go forth. |
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Definition
Speaker: Caesar
Situation: Talking to his servant and saying that he should not be worried because Caesar is more dangerous than danger and that he should not listen to the augurers.
Literary Technique: Metaphor |
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Term
| But I am as constant as the Northern Star |
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Definition
Speaker: Caesar
Situation: Caesar trying to tell the conspirators that he cannot be swayed from his decisions. He will not release Metellus' brother.
Literary Technique: Simile |
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Term
| Hence! Wilt thou lift up Olympus? |
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Definition
Speaker: Caesar
Situation Trying to tell the conspirators that it is impossible to sway him from his decisions.
Literary technique: Metaphor and allusion |
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Term
| O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That i am meek and gentle with these butchers. |
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Speaker: Antony
Situation: Antony talking to Caesars dead corpse and asking him to forgive him for being kind to the conspirators.
Literary Technique: Metaphor |
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Term
| Not that I have loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more. |
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Speaker: Brutus
Situation: Speech to the people in which he says that he killed Caesar for the good of Rome.
Literary technique: N/A |
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| Who dies at the end of Act III? |
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| When begars die there anre no comets seen; the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princess. |
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