Know the following literary terms and how they are used in the play:
Catharsis
Tragedy
Tragic Flaw
Hamartia
Aside
Soliloquy
Monologue
Dialogue
Irony
Dramatic Irony
Foreshadowing
Imagery
Iambic Pentameter
The Themes of Julius Caesar
Know the following characters:
Julius Caesar
Marcus Brutus
Cassius
The Soothsayer
Calpurnia
Decius Brutus
Portia
Casca
Artemidorus
Marc Antony
Octavius
Cinna the Poet
Be able to identify the speaker, context, and significance of the following quotations:
“Speak hands for me!” (Act III, Scene I, 76)
“Et tu, Brute? Then fall Caesar.” (Act III, Scene I, 77)
“Caesar, beware of Brutus; take heed of Cassius; come not near Casca; have an eye to Cinna…” (Act II, Scene III, 1-2)
“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me you ears…” (Act III, Scene II, 73-74)
“There is tears, for his love; joy, for his fortune; honor, for his valor; and death, for his ambition.” (Act III, Scene II, 27-29)
“This was the most unkindest cut of all…” (Act III, Scene II, 184)
“This was the noblest Roman of them all.” (Act V, Scene V, 68)
“Caesar, now be still; I killed not thee with half so good a will.” (Act V, Scene V, 50-51)
“What trash is Rome
“Cry ‘Havoc,’ and let slip the dogs of war…” (Act III, Scene I, 273)
“I am as constant as the Northern Star…” (Act III, Scene I, 60)
“’This was a man!’” (Act V, Scene V, 75)
“We’ll send Marc Antony to the Senate House, and he shall say you are not well today. Let me, upon my knee, prevail in this.” (Act II, Scene II, 52-54)
“Nor construe any further neglect than that poor Brutus, with himself at war, forgets the shows of love to other men.” (Act I, Scene II, 45-47)
“Words before blows; is it so, countrymen?” (Act V, Scene I, 27)
“Tear him for his bad verses!” (Act III, Scene III, 30)
