Julius Caesar - Act III - Imagery

Question 1

main concept

Answer 1

• much of the power of Shakespeare’s dramas is his mastery of language

Question 2

imagery

Answer 2

• metaphor, sensory language, personification

Question 3

what imagery does Shakespeare use in the underlined passage (sec. 9) form Caesar’s words to Cimber

Answer 3

• we find an extended metaphor - Caesar, the North Star, compared to other men, “unnumber’d sparks”
• Caesar compares Cimber’s petitioning to lifting up “Olympus” - the mountain of the gods

Question 4

what is the meaning of the imagery Antony uses in the underlined passage (sec. 20) of Julius Caesar

Answer 4

• Antony acknowledges that he would be more noble to weep for Caesar than to befriend his assassins

Question 5

what image is Brutus conveying in his words to Antony in the underlined passage of sec. 19 of Julius Caesar

Answer 5

• Brutus uses the image of fire quenching fire and pity the remedy for the “pitiful” state of Rome

Question 6

what imagery does Shakespeare use in the underlined passage (sec. 7) form Caesar’s words to Cimber

Answer 6

• Shakespeare uses simile - Cimber is like a cure (dog)

Question 7

note

Answer 7

• Brutus calls on the “fates” as if they could answer and had direction (personification)
• Shakespeare uses a metaphor – tears are “beads of sorrow”