Julius Caesar Review Sheet
Characters:
Julius Caesar, Artemidorous, Cinna the poet, The ghost, Cassius, Brutus, Soothsayer, Flavius, Lepidus, Casca,
Decius, Calpurnia, Portia, Titinius, Cicero, Antony, and Octavius.
Terms: Stoicism, sonnet, setting, morbid curiosity, persuasion, protagonist, pun, soliloquy, tragedy, foreshadow,
antagonist, aside, couplet, monologue, blank verse, and personification.
Morbid Curiosity: human desire to see pain or suffering
Blank Verse: unrhymed poetry spoken by most of the characters in the play.
Pun: a play on words.
Vocabulary: suffice, covert, apparition, taper, servile, infirmity, unassailable, insurrection, construe, constancy,
chastisement, cogitations, chide, tarry, redress, firmament, presage.
Know the basic plot:
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Omens leading to Caesars death
4 major mistakes made by Brutus (w/explanations)
Specific details about characters (Antony, Portia, Cassius, and 3 others)
Be able to recite the monologue you have chosen/fill in the blank.
Be able to identify key passages, the speaker, and who or what the passage refers to. These are ten of the 15
quotes you need to know for the unit exam.
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There is but one mind in all these men, and it is bent against Caesar
The fault dear Brutus, is not in our stars but in ourselves that we are underlings
Mischief , thou art a foot, take thou what course thou wilt
Julius Caesar thou art mighty yet! Thy spirit walks abroad, and turns our swords in our own proper entrails
This is a romans part, come, Cassius’s sword, and find Titnius’s heart.
This was the noblest Roman of them all
This day I breathed first. This is come round, and where I did begin, there shall I end. My life is run its
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8) O, he sits high in the peoples hears, and that which would appear offense in us his countenance, like richest
alchemy, will change to virtue and to worthiness.
9) O pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, that I am meek and gentle with these butchers.
10) Cowards die many times before their deaths, the valiant never taste death but once.