Key Terms - Julius Caesar etc - Group of Questions

Grade 10 English Language Arts

A.

With the words "know you not," Shakespeare uses...

ellipsis
anaphora
inversion
antithesis
juxtaposition

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B.

With the words "a mender of / bad soles," the Second Commoner uses...

personification
oxymoron
paradox
simile
pun

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C.

Parallelism is evident in the words...

"What conquest brings he home?"
"To grace in captive bonds his chariot wheels?"
"You blocks, you stones, you words than / senseless things!"
"Many a time and oft / Have you climbed up to walls and battlements"
"To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome"

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D.

How many syllables are in a line of iambic pentameter?

5
7
10
15

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E.

The pattern of syllables in iambic pentameter is "unstressed, stressed; unstressed, stressed; unstressed, stressed; unstressed, stressed; unstressed, stressed."

True
False

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F.

The word "portent" or "omen" means...

supplying an operation with labor and materials as needed
a sign of something about to happen
a severe interrogation
the effects of a person's actions that determine his destiny

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G.

The word "tarry" means to...

calculate
chisel
linger
traverse

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H.

The word "chide" means to...

tithe
compensate
recompense
scold

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I.

The word "cynical" means...

believing the worst of human nature and motives
sticking fast
very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
lacking stimulating characteristics

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J.

Our course will seem too bloody, Caius Cassius,
To cut the head off and then hack the limbs--
Like wrath in death and envy afterwards--
For Antony is but a limb of Caesar.
Let's be sacrificers, but not butchers, Caius.
This shall make our purpose necessary, and not envious;
Which so appearing to the common eyes,
We shall be called purgers, not murderers.
And for Mark Antony, think not of him,
For he can do no more than Caesar's arm
When Caesar's head is off.

The above text contains a lot of .

puns
ellipses
paradoxes
imagery

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K.

Cassius, we will seem too nasty-- like killing an animal and then chopping off it’s arms after it is dead. The arm can’t hurt you. If we must kill Caesar, let's do it as a sacrifice, not a murder. Then our actions will look more noble and less treasonous. And when people hear about our actions, they will say we were martyrs, not murderers. So don't worry about Mark Antony, because he won't be any threat once Caesar is gone.

The above text is a of the text found in the previous question.

inversion
ellipsis
parallel
paraphrase

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L.

1) Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
2) He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
He hath brought many captives home to Rome
Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:
Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:
3) You all did see that on the Lupercal
3 continued) I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?
But here's a parchment with the seal of Caesar;
I found it in his closet, 'tis his will:
Let but the commons hear this testament--
Here is the will, and under Caesar's seal.
To every Roman citizen he gives,
To every several man, seventy-five drachmas.
Moreover, he hath left you all his walks
His private arbors and new-planted orchards,
On this side Tiber; he hath left them you,
And to your heirs for ever, common pleasures,
4) To walk abroad, and recreate yourselves.
Here was a Caesar! when comes such another?

Which lines employ ETHOS?

1
2
3
4

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M.

Which lines (see text from previous question) employ LOGOS?

1
2
3
4

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N.

Which lines (see text from previous question) employ PATHOS?

1
2
3
4

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O.

Caesar: Let me have men about me that are fat, / Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights. / Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; / He thinks too much, such men are dangerous.

This quote from early in the play may BEST be considered an example of...

allusion
foreshadowing
verbal irony
antithesis

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P.

Antony:
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
and Brutus is an honorable man

The above quote may BEST be considered an example of...

allusion
foreshadowing
verbal irony
antithesis

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Q.

Cassius: I, as Aeneas our great ancestor
Did from the flames of Troy upon his shoulder
The old Anchises bear, so from the waves of Tiber Did I the tired Caesar.

[During the fall of Troy, Aeneas (who was the legendary founder of Rome) carried his father, Anchises, to safety on his shoulders.]

The above quote from the play (with analysis) may BEST be considered an example of...

allusion
foreshadowing
verbal irony
antithesis

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R.

Brutus: If then that friend demand why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer: not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.

The above quote may BEST be considered an example of...

allusion
foreshadowing
verbal irony
antithesis

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