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JC Act 1+2
jc act 1 +2
Question | Answer |
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Tragedy: 1.piece of literature in which a main character suffers a ... ... 2. ... leads to death | major downfall/downfall |
Tragic Hero: 1. ... noble birth 2. tragic flaw (...) 3. moment of awareness before ... (...) 4. suffer a reversal of ... ; everything to nothing (...) | high/harmatia/anagnorisis/peripeteia |
Setting: 1. Ancient ... ; ... B.C. ; ... (month) | Rome/44/March |
First Triumvirate: 1. 2. 3. | Crassus/Pompey/Caesar |
1.popular 2.powerful roman general 3.deaf in one ear 4.aging(60) 5.selectively superstitious 6.falling sickness(epilepsy) 7.barren marriage 8.flaw=hubris | Julius Caesar |
1.Caesar's wife 2.strong 3.loves Caesar | Calpurnia |
1.praetor = judge 2.stoic = no emotion 3.highly respected 4.more aligned with Pompey | Marcus Brutus |
1.Marcus's wife 2.daughter of Cato | Portia |
1.manipulator 2.villain 3.anti hero | Caius Cassius |
1.loyal to Caesar 2.young 3.athletic 4.clever 5.game-some 6.loves to party | Mark Antony |
1.tribunes = well being of commoners 2.pro Pompey | Marullus, Flavius |
... instructs ... to touch Calpurnia so that she may shake off their sterile curse | Caesar/Antony |
... warns Caesar to "Beware ..." | The soothsayer/the ides of March |
[iambic pentameter] 1.metrical system consisting of ... syllables 2.1st syllable = ... 2nd syllable = ... 3.5 iamb per line 4. verse = ... writing prose = ... writing 5. Shakespeare's plays = ... acts per play | 2/unstressed/stressed/poetry/regular/5 |
... offers Caesar the crown ... times | Caesar/3 |
a dramatic convention that allows the audience insight into the speaker's innermost thoughts and feelings | Soliloquy |
conspirators to end Caesar | 1.Casca 2.Caius Cassius 3.Trebonius 4.Cinna 5.Decius Brutus 6.Metellus Cimber |
... is the author of the letters written to to promote Brutus as king | Cassius |