Name:__________________________________ Date:_____________________
Julius Caesar Act I
I. Vocabulary: Be able to define the following words and understand them when they appear in the play.
1. Wherefore:________________________________________________________________________
2. Exeunt:____________________________________________________________________________
3. Vulgar:____________________________________________________________________________
a) What part of speech is vulgar when used by Flavius in line 72? ______________________
4. Construe:__________________________________________________________________________
II. Literary Terms: Be able to define each term and apply each term to the play.
1. Blank verse:________________________________________________________________________
a) What kind of characters speak in blank verse?__________________________________
b) What kind of characters speak in prose?______________________________________
c) Why might some characters speak in prose and some speak in verse? ______________
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2. Tragedy:___________________________________________________________________________
3. Pun:______________________________________________________________________________
a) Example of a pun from Act I, scene i:_________________________________________
4. Conflict:___________________________________________________________________________
a) List 2 examples of external conflicts from Act I: ____________________________________
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b) List 1 example of an internal conflict from Act I: ____________________________________
5. Soliloquy:__________________________________________________________________________
a) Example from Act I:________________________________________________________
6. Iambic pentameter: __________________________________________________________________
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7. Metaphor: __________________________________________________________________________
a) Example:_________________________________________________________________
8. Simile: _____________________________________________________________________________
a) Example:________________________________________________________________
Name:________________________________ Date:____________________________
Julius Caesar: Act II
I. Vocabulary: Be able to define the following words and understand them when they appear in the play:
1. Taper:______________________________________________________________________________
2. Tyranny:____________________________________________________________________________
3. Lest:_______________________________________________________________________________
II. Literary Terms: Be able to define each term and apply each term to the play.
1. Anachronism:________________________________________________________________________
a. Example: _____________________________________________________________________
2. Complication:________________________________________________________________________
3. Personification:______________________________________________________________________
a. Example:_____________________________________________________________________
4. Verbal Irony: ________________________________________________________________________
a. Example: ____________________________________________________________________
5. Dramatic Irony: ______________________________________________________________________
a. Example:_____________________________________________________________________
6. Situational Irony:_____________________________________________________________________
a. Example: _____________________________________________________________________
7. Aside: _____________________________________________________________________________
a. Example:_____________________________________________________________________
Name _________________________________
Date:_____________________
Julius Caesar: Act III
Vocabulary: Be able to define the following words and understand them when they appear in the play.
1) Vouchsafe:_________________________________________________________________________
2) Conspiracy:_________________________________________________________________________
3) Foe:_______________________________________________________________________________
II) Literary Terms: Be able to define each term and apply each term to the play.
1) Climax:_____________________________________________________________________________
a) What is the climax of the play? ___________________________________________________
2) Allusion:____________________________________________________________________________
a) Example:_____________________________________________________________________
3) Imagery:____________________________________________________________________________
a) Example: ____________________________________________________________________
4) Verbal Irony
a) Example:_____________________________________________________________________
Julius Caesar: Act IV
I) Vocabulary: Be able to define the following words and understand them when they appear in the play.
1) Triumvirate:________________________________________________________________________
II) Literary Terms: Be able to define each term and apply each term to the play.
1) Foil: _______________________________________________________________________________
a) Example: ____________________________________________________________________
2) Foreshadowing:______________________________________________________________________
a) Example: ____________________________________________________________________
Name:________________________________________ Date:________________________
Julius Caesar: Act V
I) Vocabulary: Be able to define the following words and understand them when they appear in the play.
1) Cur:______________________________________________________________________________
2) Stoic:_____________________________________________________________________________
a) Which character could be considered stoic? _______________________________________
Why? ________________________________________________________________________
II) Literary Terms: Be able to define each term and apply each term to the play.
1) Theme:_____________________________________________________________________________
a) Example:_____________________________________________________________________
2) Resolution:__________________________________________________________________________
a) What is the resolution in the play? ________________________________________________
3) Protagonist: ________________________________________________________________________
a) Who is the protagonist?_________________________________________________________
4) Tragedy:____________________________________________________________________________
a) Explain why Julius Caesar is a tragedy: _____________________________________________