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Literary devices in Julius Caesar with definitions
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- 1What are the Literary Devices in "Julius Caesar"?1. Situational irony
2. Dramatic irony
3. Pun
4. Simile
5. Soliloquy
6. Aside
7. Tragic hero/tragic flaws
8. Rhetorical questions
9. Verbal irony - 2What are Aristotle's Persuasive Modes?1. Ethos
2. Logos
3. Pathos - 3What is an Omen?It is another type of foreshadowing.
- 4Name some Omens in "Julius Caesar".1. The Weather
2. 'Beware the Ides of March'
3. the Dream - 5What are some Themes and Motifs in "Julius Caesar"?1. Misinterpretation
- Calpurnia's dream
- All members of the senate are Caesar's friends and they are on his side
2. Omens
- Calpurnia's dream of Caesar's death
- Supernatural happening in the streets
- Soothsayer's warning ('Beware the Ides of March')
3. Letters
- Cassius writes forged letters
- Artmidorus' letter to Caesar - 6What is Situational Irony?a situation where the outcome is incongruous with what was expected
- 7What is Dramatic Irony?When the audience knows more than one or more of the characters
- 8What is a pun?A play on words, either on different senses of the same word or on the similar sense or sound of different words
- 9What is a simile?A figure of speech in which two unlike things are being compared using 'like' or 'as'
- 10What is a soliloquy?a speech given by a character alone on stage, used to reveal his or her private thoughts and feelings
- 11What is an aside?a character's remark, either to the audience or to another character, that no one else on stage is supposed to hear
- 12What is a tragic hero or tragic flaws?the downfall or destruction of a character
- 13What are rhetorical questions?a question asked merely for effect with no answer expected
- 14What is verbal irony?a figure of speech in which the intended meaning of a statement differs from the meaning that the words appear to express
- 15Explain Aristotle's Persuasive Mode: EthosThe ongoing establishment of a writer's or speaker's authority, credibility, and believability as he or she speaks or writes. It appeals to the ethics and character. It seeks to persuade the reader that the writer or speaker can be trusted and believed due to his or her noble character or ethical ways in which he or she is presenting ideas.
- 16Explain Aristotle's Persuasive Mode: LogosThe use of logic, rationality, and critical reasoning to persuade. It appeals to the mind. It seeks to persuade the reader intellectually.
- 17Explain Aristotle's Persuasive Mode: PathosThe use of emotion and affect to persuade. It appeals to the heart and to one's emotion. pathos seeks to persuade the reader emotionally.
- 18What are some types of Shakespearean Drama? Explain them.1. Tragedy - involves the ruin of leading characters. To the Greeks, it meant the destruction of a noble person through fate. To the Elizabethans, it meant the first place death and in the second place the destruction of a noble person through a flaw in character.
2. Comedy - Lighter drama in which the leading character overcome the difficulties which temporarily beset them.
3. Sonnet - a lyric poem that almost always consists of fourteen lines (usually printed as a single stanza) and that typically follows one of several conventional rhyme schemes.
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