Julius Caesar Flashcards
Blank verse
Unrhymed Iambic Pentameter
Iambic Pentameter
The most common meter in English verse five iamb feet per line 10 syllables
Where is tragedy?
In act 5.
TRAGIC HERO
- Nobility-power, money, respect
- Moral decision- justifying acts on your behalf
- Fatal Flaw- character traits that aren’t bad but lead to a down fall.
Brutus is Tragic hero because
- Nobel patrician & military leader. Also a family man
- Moral decision of killing Brutus for the good if the Rome and keep the roman republic strong
- Fatal Flaw is being too trusting, trust Antony to say good things about him and Cassius to kill Brutus with conspirAtors
Soliloquy
One character alone on stage delivering a monologue.
Aside
One character in the middle of the scene delivers lines for only the audience to hear.
Monologue
One character speaks uninterrupted for extended period.
Exemplum
Example
Anti-thesis
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
Parallelism
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
Chiasmus
A flip structure of Parallelism the opposite. different order
Apostrophe
Breaks the flow to directly address a person or object present or not emotions and device.
Asyndeton
No conjugation fast-moving spontaneous.
for example I came, I saw, and I conquered
Polysyndeton
Many conjuncations.
Synecdoche
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…
Metonyme
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).
Amplification
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.
Zeugma
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.
Ethos
Convince through credibility or reputation
Pathos
Convince by manipulating emotions
Logos
Convince by logic / facts
Hypophra
Asking a question than answering it.
Hyperbole
Over exaggerate
