Act 3 Study Guide

I. VOCABULARY: Be able to define the following words and understand them when they appear in the play.


vouchsafe:to grant or give, by favor, graciousness, or condescension.

conspiracy:an evil, unlawful, treacherous or surreptituous plan formated in secret by two or more persons.


foe: a person who feels enimity, hatred, or macile toward another; enemy.

II. LITERARY TERMS: Be able to define each term and apply each term to the play.

climax: the highest or most intense point in the developments or resolution of something.

allusion: a passing or casual reference; and incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication.

imagery: mental images, figures, or likeliness of things.

verbal irony: in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant.

III. Questions: answer the following questions.

Scene 1:
1. What reason does Caesar give for not reading Artemidorus’s letter?
-He will serve his own needs last.

2. What Roles do the following characters play in the conspiracy?
Trebonius: He is the one who lures Antony away before they murder Caesar.

Metellus Cimber: Made a fake appeal to Caesar to let his banished brother into the city again.
Casca: He was supposed to stab Caesar in the heart by sneaking up behind him.

3. What is Caesar’s opinion of himself?
-He was unbreakable and powerful. He had the people falling for him and thought he could do anything.

4. What does “Et tu, Brute?” mean? How do these words relate to the theme of friendship in the play?
-You to Brutus.

5. Where does Caesar’s dead body lie? How is this ironic?
-He was laying infront of the statue of a man he defeated in battle. He died infront of a man he killed.

6. What does Brutus tell the conspirators to do after killing Caesar?
-To bathe their hands in Caesar's blood.

7. What promise does Brutus tell the servant to relay to Antony?
-Not to say anything bad about the conspirators at the funeral.

8. What does Antony say about the possibility of being killed by the conspirators?
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9. After being assured he is in no danger, what favor does Antony ask of the conspirators?
-To be able to make a speech at Caesar's funeral.

10. What does Cassius think about granting Antony this favor?
-Cassius is against it. He doesn't trust Antony.

11. What restrictions does Brutus set?
-Antony has to speak after Brutus, and not say anything bad about the conspirators.

12. Summarize Antony’s main points in his speech to Caesar’s body?
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13. Who is coming to Rome to meet with Antony?
-Octavius and Lepidus

Scene 2:
14. According to Brutus’s speech to the commoners, what reasons does he give for Caesar’s death?
-Caesar was ambitious.

15. What is the mood of the crowd as Brutus finishes his speech?
-They all believe that Caesar was a bad person, who wanted to become a dictator.

16. What does Brutus offer at the end of his speech?
-That he will kill himself if what he did was wrong.

17. List three points of Antony’s speech that work to persuade the crowd to turn on the conspirators.
-Caesar's will

-He refused the crown 3 times.
18. What reason does Antony give for why he cannot read Caesar’s will?
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19. What has Caesar bequeathed the Romans in his will?
-He left them land and money.

20. How does the crowd react to Antony’s speech?
-They are outraged and start an angry mob.

Scene 3:
21. What happens to Cinna the Poet? Why?
-She was killed. Because they were upset and just because his name was Cinna, they wanted him dead.

Julius Caesar: Act II Reading and Study Guide

Julius Caesar: Act II Reading and Study Guide

I. VOCABULARY: Be able to define the following words and understand them when they appear in
the play.

taper: to become smaller or thinner toward the end.

tyranny (t r -n )Arbitrary or unrestrained exercise of power; despotic abuse of authority.
lest:expressing fear, danger, ect.

II. LITERARY TERMS: Be able to define each term and apply each term to the play.

anachronism( -n k r -n z m): a thing or person that belongs to an earlier time.

complication: something that introduces unexpectedly, some difficult, problem, cahnge, etc.

personification: the attribution of a person nature or character to inamitate objects or abstract notions.

irony: the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning.

I. dramatic irony: is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play.

II. situational irony: outcome to be very different then what expected.

III. verbal irony: a figure of speech is in what said is the opposite of what is meant.

aside: away from ones thoughts or consideration.

III. Questions: answer the following questions.

Scene 1:
1. According to Brutus, why is it is necessary that Caesar be killed?
-Caesar will become to powerful and general welfare.
2. What actions does Lucius perform that help the plot unfold?
-Send al letter about right and wrong and suggest certain things without spelling them out.
3. What is Brutus’s internal conflict?
-A terrible act and the actual performance of it is a nightmare. The soul and body debates the subject.
4. Why does Brutus disagree about taking an oath?
-Its for priests, cowards, old and dying men, and people enjoy dying. There blood would not be truly Roman if they broke there word.
5. Why does Metellus think it would be a good idea to ask Cicero to join the conspiracy?
-His age would win popular support. People would say our youth and wildness were ruled by his sound judgement.
6. Why does Brutus say they should not ask Cicero to join the conspiracy?
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7. What does Brutus say about killing Marc Antony?
-He isnt going to kill himself; he loves sports, wildness, and soicializing to much.
8. What reason does Cassius give for why Caesar might not come out of his house today?
-He is superstitous, in contrast to the strong views he once had of such beliefs. Strange events and arguments of his fortuneteller.
9. By what method does Decius say he will use to get Caesar out of the house?
-He loves to hear such stories, he can also be trapped by-flattery.
10. Why is Portia, Brutus’s wife, worried about Brutus?
-The way he looks and his attitude.
11. How does she prove her strength to Brutus?
-Wounding herself in the thigh.

Scene 2:
12. Why does Calpurnia want Caesar to stay home?
-Because of the memory threatening omens.
13. Describe Calpurnia’s dream.
-She is frightened of the omens. Terrible things will happen.
14. How does Decius interpret the interpret Calpurnia’s dream?
-He had to make Caesar look at Calpurnia's drean in a different way.
15. What arguments does Decius use to change Caesar’s mind about going to the Capitol?
-Great men will come to you for honors and souvenirs to remember you by.

Scene 3:
16. What does Artemidorus plan to do?
-He wants Caesar.

Scene 4:
17. Why is Portia so nervous?
-she is nervous about the conspiracy.
18. What does Portia want Lucius to do?
-To go see what is happening at the capitol.
19.What does the soothsayer tell Portia?
-That Caesar is in more danger.

Julius Caesar Study Guide 1

Name___Summer

Block______________

 

 

Julius Caesar: Act I Reading and Study Guide

 

I. VOCABULARY: Be able to define the following words and understand them when they appear in

      the play.

 

              wherefore_____why______________________________________________

 

              exeunt (ks-nt , -nt)go offstage_______________

 

              vulgar__crude, unrefined_______

                            What part of speech is vulgar when used by Flavius in line 72?__________________________________

 

              construe____interpret__________

 

II. LITERARY TERMS: Be able to define each term and apply each term to the play.

 

              blank verse __unrhymed lines an iambic pentameter

                            List characters who speak in verse___________________________________________

 

              prose________________matter of fact, dull quality                           

List characters who speak in prose___________________________________________

 

                                          **What possible reason do some characters speak in prose and some speak in

                                              verse?_________________________________________________________

 

                                              ______________________________________________________________

 

              Tragedy drama

              pun To make puns                           

Example from Act I, scene i:_______________________________________________

 

              conflict _______Problem__________________________

 

                            External:  1.man vs. man                                             

     2 man vs. society

                                              3. Man  vs. nattier                            

                  Internal:              4.man vs. self

 

              soliloquy (s-ll-kw) _____a long speech given by a character alone on stage, to reveal his/her private thoughts.                            Example:_______________________________________________________________

             

              iambic meter ________unstressed             

iambic pentameter _____5 unstressed 1 stressed

 

              metaphor _______________comparing something not using like or as

                                          Example: _________Santa was redder than a cherry

              simile __comparing something using like or as___________________

 

                                          Example: ___She was a red as a cherry

III.  Questions: answer the following questions.

 

Background

 

1.  Where and when was Shakespeare born?

1564

2.  What theatre did Shakespeare help build?

Global theatre

3.  When did he die?

 

4.  In what historical period was Shakespeare living?  Who was the ruler of England at that time?

Renaissance and elizabeth

5.  What three types of plays did Shakespeare write?  Give an example of each.

Historic, tragedy and comedies

6.  What was it like to go to a play during Shakespeare’s time?

A honor

7.  What historian did Shakespeare use as a source for writing Julius Caesar?

 

8.  When and where did Julius Caesar live?

Rome

9.  Who is Pompey?  Although he is not a character in the play, why is he important to the plot?

Julius Caesar enemy

Scene 1:

 

10.  What is the setting?  What holiday is being celebrated? 

Rome and idles of March

12.  Who are Marullus and Flavius? 

Members of the concil

13. Why do they want to drive the commoners from the street? 

Because they don’t like Caesar or his celebration

14.  What else do Marullus and Flavius do to further hinder the celebration of Caesar’s victory? 

Ruin the statues

Scene 2:

 

15.  What does Caesar tell Antony to do to Calpurnia? 

Keep her out the house

16.  Why might Caesar ask Antony in front of everyone else? 

Casue he is his most loyal friend

17.  What is a soothsayer?  Of what does he warn Caesar? 

a poor person that he will killed of the Ides of March

18.  What does ides mean? 

15^th

19.  Does Marcus Brutus like Caesar?  What does Brutus think of Caesar’s rise to power?  Use lines from play to support your answer. 

He lovles Caesar but is convinced that he will lead home to its down fell.

 

20.  Brutus says, “For let the gods so speed me as I love / The name of honor more than I fear death.”  What do these lines imply about Brutus’s most important value in life? 

His country

21.  What story does Cassius tell Brutus? 

That he had to help Caesar through the water because he was not strong enough to last

 

22.  What is Cassius’s point in telling this story?

That Caesar’s is not fit to ne king

23.  What is Caesar’s opinion of Cassius?  Why does he feel this way? 

He Hates him casue he is not loyal

24.  What handicap does Caesar reveal about himself when speaking to Antony? 

He has strokes and mental pronlems

25.  How many times was Caesar offered a coronet, or a small crown? 

5 times

26.  What was Caesar’s reaction to the offering, according to Casca? 

He did not want it

 

27.  What sickness does Caesar have? 

He has some sort of brain problem

28.  What happens to Marullus and Flavius? 

They are killed

29.  What does Cassius plan to do to convince Brutus to conspire against Caesar? 

He comes to him in the night and begs him

Scene 3:

 

30. What unusual events occur during the storm? 

 

Caesar’s wife has night make bout his death

31.  What meaning does Cassius interpret from the storm? 

That tomorrow Caesar need to be killed

 

32.  According to Casca, what are the senators planning to do to Caesar tomorrow?

Kill caesar

33.  Who is definitely part of the conspiracy?

              1. cassius                             4.  metellius

              2.  brutus                            5.  denius

              3.  casca                            6.  All of council

200 Word Essay

Are we victims of fate or can we creat our own destiny?

Well i think we are not victims, but we can make up in our own minds what we want to do and be in life, but if its not right it wont happen. We can not do anything for ourself without god. God knows the future before we even think we do, God knows exactly what is going to happen and when. We can't be victims of fate and we can not create our own destiny, only God can. Sometimes we think and try to plan the future, but we also have to think when we trying to plan the future it never goes right, and it is becasue we try to make us make what happens. God is in control of everything, That's why some things happens becasue God wants it to happen. So as i can say no we are not victims of fate and we can not create our own destiny. God is in contorl of his world, we are his people.

Shakespeare Background 10

Shakespeare Background – Grade 10

Name ______________________________ Date ___________

England in Shakespeare’s Day [p. 683]

· William Shakespeare is the greatest ___writer _________________ of all time.

· He lived in the country of ____England_____________________ during the

_________Renaissance___________________.

· He was born in the year __1564______, when ___Elizabeth I__________________ was queen of England.

· England was established as a world power in 1588, when English defeated an attempted invasion by __Spanish_____________________ ___Armanda_______________.

· Plays in which dialogue is mostly poetry is called ____Verse________ ______Drama_____.

Theatre in Shakespeare’s Day [p.684]

· In the 1590’s, Shakespeare’s theater group was called the __Lord__________

_______Chamberlain’s ________________ ______Men____.

· The new London home of the group was a place called the ____Globe_________ Theater.

· When Queen Elizabeth I died, the group’s new sponsor was _King James I________, and the group changed its name to The ___King’s ______ ___Men_________.

· The Globe Theater was located on the banks of the ________Thomes_______ River.

· The theatre was __3____ stories high, made of __wood____, and could hold as many as _____3 thousnad______ spectators. Customers, called __groundlings____________ stood in the pit by the stage and paid t he lowest price for admission. Richer patrons sat in balconies, also called _inner_____________.

· Most theatres in that day had no artificial ___lightning___________ or ________heating______, so performances were given in ___daylight_________________ in warmer weather.

Many commonly quoted phrases came from Shakespeare’s plays. Some examples are:

_”Friends, Romans, countrymen led mr your ear’s” from __Julius Caesar_____.

_”O Romeo, Romeo, where fore art thou Romeo”_ from _Romeo and juliet___.

“To be or not to be” from _Hamlet_________.

Shakespeare

Terms to Know

Name ______________________________ Date ___________

Define these terms found on p. 686-688.

1. verse dramas – plays in which the dialogue consists almost entirely of poetry

2. blank verse – unrhymed lines

3. iambic pentameter – fixed pattern of rhythm

4. soliloquy – a long speech given by a character while alone on stage

5. aside – character’s quiet remark to the audience or another character

6. rhetorical devices – uses languages and sound to appeal the audiences emotions

1) the repetition of words and sounds

2) parallelism, or repeated grammatical structures

3) rhetorical questions

7. irony – contrast between appearance and reality

8. dramatic irony – the audience or reader knows something that one or more charcters do not know.

9. pun – sou's

10. allusion – allusion to the gait statue

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You should also know:

1. ambition – An earbnest desire to acheive something

2. vanity – something about which one is vair

3. envy – obsolete, ill will

4. revenge – to take vengeance for

In your opinion, is it right to ask a close friend to do something dangerous? Explain.

No, because if you want do it, then why would you want a friend to do it, it doesn’t make any sense.

Lord of the Flies chapter 9

Lord of the Flies

DQ’s Chapter 9 A View to a Death

 

Answer the questions.

 

1. What was the "cannon" that "continued to play" throughout chapter 9?

        Thunder

 

2. Who sat, like an idol, painted and garlanded, in the center of the lawn?

        Jack

 

3. During the party, evening had come, not with calm beauty, but with the

_______Threat____    __Of___   

 

_____Vidence__________

 

 

4. At the party, who acted like the pig? 

Roger

 

5. What happened to the parachutist?  

The strom

 

6. Who was killed because the boys thought he was the beast? 

 

Simion

7. What happened to the body on the beach? 

The idc Camed it out to sea

 

 

Who Said it?

 

8. "Do our dance! Come on! Dance!" 

Jack

 

9. "Let them go.  I don't care." 

 

Ralph

10. "P'raps we ought to go too...I mean to make sure nothing happens"

Piggy

Lord of the Flies chapter 8

Lord of the Flies

DQ’s Chapter 8 Gift for the Darkness

 

Answer the questions.

 

1. Who called the first assembly? 

Jack

 

2. During the assembly, how many voted that Ralph shouldn't be chief? 

None

 

3. On page 140 the hunters get a new name.  What is it? 

 

 

4. The group of boys looked at it with affectionate respect.  What was it?

        The conch

 

Who Said it?

 

5. "I'm not going to play any longer.  Not with you." 

 

jack

6. "I think we ought to climb the mountain." 

Ralph

 

7. "We'll hunt and I'm going to be chief" 

Jack

 

8. "The head is for the beast, it's a gift." 

 

Jack

9. "I'd like to put on war-paint and be a savage.  But we must keep the

fire

burning." 

        Ralph

 

10. "Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill." 

       

The lord of the flies

11. "You knew didn't you?  I'm part of you?"    

The lord of the flies