Julius Caesar Critical – Flashcards
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Why
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Wherefore
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All exit the stage
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Exeunt
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Common people (noun)
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Vulgar
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Interpret; explain
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Construe
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Blank verse; the elite
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Unrhymed verse, who speaks in it?
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Common people
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Non-rhythmic
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Play is old
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What possible reason is there for some characters speaking in prose and some in verse/
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tragedy
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Sad; disaster
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pun
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Play on words
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conflict
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fight, problem
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soliloquy
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For audience; characters thoughts; alone on stage; long
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iambic meter
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consists of unstressed sylables followed by stressed
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iambic pentameter
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each line of the play's poetry built on 5 iambs
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metaphor
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comparing 2 things not using like or as
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simile
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comparison between 2 things using like or as
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april 23, 1564 in standford-upon-avon
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Where & when was shakespeare born?
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April 23, 1616
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What day did he die?
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Elizabethan or renaissance; King james
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what peiord was he living? who was the ruler of england at that time?
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tragedy (JC) comedies (mid-summer night) history (henry)
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what 3 types of plays did shakespeare write?
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afternoon
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what was it like to go to a play i shakespeare's time?
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PLUTARUTH
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what historian did shakespeare use for writing JC?
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rome; 100-44 BC
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When and where di JC live?
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feast of lubricon; rome
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Who wwhat is the setting? what holiday was being celebrated?
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council tribunes
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who are marullus and flavius?
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don't like caesar; don't want to celebrate
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why do theyw ant to drive the commoners form the street?
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ruin statues
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what else do marullus and falvius do to further hinder the cleeberation of caesar's victory?
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touch her to unsterilize
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what does caesar tell antony to do to calpurise?
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because he is his most loyal friend
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why might caesar ask antony in front of everyone else?
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someone that predicts the future; ides of march (he will be killed)
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what is a soothsayer? of what does he warn caesar?
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Yes, but he doesn't want him to be king
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Does marcus brutus like caesar?
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middle
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what does ideas mean?
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in the tiber river him and caesar had a race and saved him
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what story does cassius tell brutus?
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caesar is not very great as people make him
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what is cassius' point in telling this story?
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dangerous; reads alot
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what is caesar's opinion of cassius? why does he feel this way?
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left ear is death
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what handicap does caesar reveal about himself when speaking to antony?
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3
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how many timers did caesar refuse the crown?
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fainted
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what was caesar's reaction to the offering according to casca?
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epilesy
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what sickness does caesar have?
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killed
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what happens to marulus and favius
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make him to something
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what does cassisu plan to do to convince brutus to conspire againist caesar
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in his dream, slave burned people
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what unusal events occur duing the storm
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foreshadows something goods not gonna happen
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what meaning does cassisu interpret from the storm?
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kill caesar
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according to casca, what are the senators planning to do to caesar tomorrow?
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casca, cassius, metellus, brutus, cicero, and cinna
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who is in the conspiracy
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candle
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taper
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single power with total power
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tyranny
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lest
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forfear that
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anachronism
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belonging to the past
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complication
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confused
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personification
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unliving with living qualities
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dramatic irony
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reader knows soemthing that character doesn't
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situational irony
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opposite of what is expected
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verbal irony
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speaker says one thing but means opposite
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he will become too powerful
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according to brutus, why is it necessaryt hat caesar be killed?
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seand a letter to brutus and tells portia which commits suicide
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what actions does lucius perfrom that help the plot unfold?
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choosing caesar or rome
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what is brutus' internal conflict?
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no reason for it
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why does brutus disagree about taking an oath?
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his age would win suppoprt
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why does metellus think it would be a good idea to ask cicero to join the conspiracy?
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he wouldn't do it
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why does brutus say they should not ask cicero to joint he conspiracy?
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cicero will not follow any plan started by someone else, it isn't necessary; too bloody
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what does brtus say about killing antony?
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he believes the forutnetellers something bad will happen; calpurnia's dreams
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what reason does cassius give for hwy caesar might no come out of his house today?
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flatery
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by what method does decius say he will use to get caesar out of the house?
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how he is acting weird
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why is portia worried about brutus?
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stabing herself in the thigh
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how does she prove her strength to brutus?
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because of her nightmare
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why does calpurnia want caesar to stay home
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people were stabbing caesar and he was dead
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describe calpurnia's dream
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that it would recover rome
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how does decius interpret calpurnias dream
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great men will come to you for honor
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what arguements does decius use to change caesar's mind about going to the capital
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give the letter to caesar
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what does artiidorus plan to do
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the conspiracy
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why is portia so nervous
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go see whats happening
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what does portia want lucius to do
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hes gonna have a word with caesar
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what does soothsayer tell portia
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vouchsafe
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grant or give
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conspiracy
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evil plan
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foe
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enermy
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casear's murder
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climax?
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goes to the capital; personal needs last
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what reason does caesar give for not reading artemidorus' letter
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lured antony out of senate
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trebonius
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let banished brother into city again (distraction)
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mettallus cimbe
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first to stab caesar
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casca
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unbreakable and powerful
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what is caesar's opinoin of himself
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and your also, burtus? betrayal
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what does etu brute mean? how do these words relate to the theme of freindship in the play?
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infront of the statue of man he defeated;
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where does caesar's dead body lie? how is this rionic?
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put blood on hands to let people know they killed him
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what does brutus tell the conspirators to do after killing caesar
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he wil be safe
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what promise does brutus tell the servant to relay to antony
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it would be an honor
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what does antony say about the possibility of being killed by the conspirators
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speak at the funeral
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after being assured he is in no danger, what favor does antony ask of the conspirators
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he doens't trust him
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what does cassius think about granting antony this favor
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say he gave permission and do not blame them
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what restircitons does brutus set
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war will come
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summarize antony's main points i his speech to casar's body
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octavius
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who is coming to rome to meet with antony
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good of rome
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according to burtus's speech to the commoners, what reasons does he give for caesar's death
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they believed caesars death was good
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what is the mood of the crowd as brutus finished his speech
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his life
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what does brutus offer at the end of his speech
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the crowd will be angry when they hear how much caaesar loved them
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what reason does antony give for y he cannot read caesars will
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75 drachmas and lands parks orchids
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what had caesar bequethen the romans in his will
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they are in riot; like antony hate brutus
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how does the crowd react to antony's speech
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gets killed bc of bad poetry
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what happens to cinna the poet
