Julius Caesar Flashcards

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Blank verse

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Unrhymed Iambic Pentameter

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Iambic Pentameter

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The most common meter in English verse five iamb feet per line 10 syllables

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Where is tragedy?

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In act 5.

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TRAGIC HERO

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  1. Nobility-power, money, respect
  2. Moral decision- justifying acts on your behalf
  3. Fatal Flaw- character traits that aren’t bad but lead to a down fall.
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Brutus is Tragic hero because

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  1. Nobel patrician & military leader. Also a family man
  2. Moral decision of killing Brutus for the good if the Rome and keep the roman republic strong
  3. Fatal Flaw is being too trusting, trust Antony to say good things about him and Cassius to kill Brutus with conspirAtors
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Soliloquy

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One character alone on stage delivering a monologue.

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Aside

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One character in the middle of the scene delivers lines for only the audience to hear.

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Monologue

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One character speaks uninterrupted for extended period.

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Exemplum

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Example

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Anti-thesis

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Use contrast language to Bring out contrasting ideas of fairly simpler way to show a complex through. opposites
Example: that one small step for man, one giant step for mankind

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Parallelism

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Can find in sentences movies book. use the same multiple part of a sentence matching cadence form of the subject at clarity and fluency.
Example; we can … We can … We can

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Chiasmus

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A flip structure of Parallelism the opposite. different order

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Apostrophe

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Breaks the flow to directly address a person or object present or not emotions and device.

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Asyndeton

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No conjugation fast-moving spontaneous.

for example I came, I saw, and I conquered

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Polysyndeton

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Many conjuncations.

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Synecdoche

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The use of part of something to represent the whole.
“Let each man render me his bloody hand”
Here, a hand (or handshake) stands for the whole loyalty of the citizen(and this is followed byseveral other…

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Metonyme

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Refers to something closely related to the actual object and use that as a way of referring to the object -symbols.
“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears” (Act III, scene II, lines 74-77). The page number varies in different versions of the book.

Metonymically — “ear” represents “attention” (because we use ears to pay attention to someone’s speech). When we hear the phrase “lending ear (attention)”, we stretch the base meaning of “lend” (to let someone borrow an object) to include the “lending” of non-material things (attention).

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Amplification

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Repeat what just said while adding more detail and information add style.
Ex: The thesis paper was difficult: it required extensive research, data collection, sample surveys, interviews and a lot of fieldwork.

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Zeugma

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Unexpected items are linked by shared the word usually eliminates verb repetition. helps reader make connection
You are free to execute your laws, and your citizens, as you see fit.” In this sentence, the word “execute” applies to both laws and citizens, and as a result, has a shocking effect.

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Ethos

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Convince through credibility or reputation

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Pathos

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Convince by manipulating emotions

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Logos

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Convince by logic / facts

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Hypophra

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Asking a question than answering it.

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Hyperbole

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Over exaggerate