Julius Caesar (Intro)

Question 1

Who is the author of Julius Caesar?

Answer 1

William Shakespeare

Question 2

When was Julius Caesar born?

Answer 2

100 B.C.

Question 3

What were the two main events that were taking place during the time that Shakespeare was writing Julius Caesar?

Answer 3

the English Reformation and the Renaissance

Question 4

What was the name of the theater that Shakespeare helped to establish?

Answer 4

Goble Theater

Question 5

What were members of the aristocracy?

Answer 5

patrician

Question 6

What was Caesar’s greatest military conquest?

Answer 6

Gallic Wars

Question 7

What did the Romans despise the idea of?

Answer 7

a king

Question 8

What form of government was established when the last king was overthrown?

Answer 8

the Roman Republic

Question 9

What is a philosophy of living or a set of beliefs?

Answer 9

worldview

Question 10

What worldview believes that acting with moderation, courage, and justice would bring the greatest life fulfillment?

Answer 10

stoic worldview

Question 11

Who is the main Stoic in this story?

Answer 11

Brutus

Question 12

What worldview believes in following natural desires such as happiness, ease, and satisfaction but rejects what is considered unnatural desires such as fame or luxury?

Answer 12

Epicurean worldview

Question 13

Who is the main Epicurean in this story?

Answer 13

Cassius

Question 14

What is poetry traditionally identified as unrhymed iambic pentament but also including other feet and meter?

Answer 14

blank verse

Question 15

What is a reference to mythology, history, or literarture?

Answer 15

allusion

Question 16

What is an amusing scene or speech that serves to heighten or intensify the tragic elements of a play or to give relief from the dramatic action?

Answer 16

comic relief

Question 17

What is the word choice used by the author to accomplish a specific result?

Answer 17

diction

Question 18

What is a narrative device that gives an indication or hint that something will happen in the future?

Answer 18

foreshadowing

Question 19

What is the use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning?

Answer 19

irony

Question 20

What type of irony is contrasting what a character says and what a reader or audience knows to be true?

Answer 20

dramatic irony

Question 21

What type of irony is presenting a discrepancy between appearance and reality or between expectation and fulfillment?

Answer 21

situational irony

Question 22

What type of irony is saying the opposite of what is meant?

Answer 22

verbal irony

Question 23

What is an implied comparison in which one thing is described in terms of another?

Answer 23

metaphor

Question 24

What is a long speech given by a single character?

Answer 24

monologue

Question 25

What is a comparison in which human characteristics are given to an inanimate object or animal?

Answer 25

personification

Question 26

What is the art of persuasion that all Roman civic leader were expected to be skilled in?

Answer 26

rhetoric

Question 27

What is an expressed comparison often using the words like or as?

Answer 27

simile

Question 28

What is a speech by a lone character on the stage to give insight into the character's innermost thoughts or motivation?

Answer 28

soliloquy

Question 29

What is a word or group of words having meaning in itself but also representing something beyond itself?

Answer 29

symbolism

Question 30

What rhetorical device is an appeal to emotion?

Answer 30

pathos

Question 31

What rhetorical device is an appeal to logic or reasoning?

Answer 31

logos

Question 32

What rhetorical device is an appeal to credibility?

Answer 32

ethos

Question 33

What rhetorical device is an intentional repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of a sentence or clause?

Answer 33

amaphora

Question 34

What rhetorical device is a question that is not meant to be answered?

Answer 34

rhetorical question

Question 35

What rhetorical device is a contrasting of opposite ideas?

Answer 35

antithesis