The Happenings (Events) | Characters | Ethos, Logos, Pathos | Order the Events | Hodgepodge (Random) |
---|---|---|---|---|
Who is Caesar?
Which major character dies in the third act of the play?
|
Who is Brutus?
This character, despite their flaws, represents the idea of honor and commitment to country
|
Ethos - Moral, Character, Honor, Credibility
Logos - Logic, reason Pathos - Emotional, humanity
Define Ethos, Logos, and Pathos
|
2, 1, 3
Here are three events. Place them in the proper order.
1. The Romans are celebrating Ceasar's return. 2. Pompey is killed. 3. The Soothsayer warns Caesar of the "ides of March." |
Conflict, concept, conclusion / resolution
What are the three pieces to writing a thematic statement?
|
Because he is mistaken for a senator / conspirator by the mob of angry Romans.
Cinna the poet dies at the end of Act III. Why?
|
Who is Antony?
This particular character proves to be a huge threat to the senators despite Brutus' initial feeling that he wouldn't be.
|
What are honor, virtue, and "more than I fear death"?
BRUTUS
For let the gods so speed me as I love The name of honour more than I fear death. CASSIUS I know that virtue to be in you, Brutus, As well as I do know your outward favour. There are two words and one key phrase in this snippet of dialogue here indicate the idea of Ethos. Identify two. |
3, 2, 1
Here are three events. Place them in the proper order:
1. Brutus Dies 2. Cassius Dies 3. Caesar Dies |
Who is Pompey?
The audience either comes to the play knowing this information or finds it out in the first act when a character reveals it: who died?
|
Three: Brutus, Cassius, Portia
How many characters "unalive" themselves? And who are they?
|
Portia is Brutus wife. Calpurnia is Caesar's wife.
Which wife is which? Put the couples together.
|
What is pathos?
PORTIA
Am I yourself But, as it were, in sort or limitation, To keep with you at meals, comfort your bed, And talk to you sometimes? Dwell I but in the suburbs Of your good pleasure? If it be no more, Portia is Brutus' harlot, not his wife. This statement from Portia is meant to appeal to her husband's ____________ . |
1, 3, 4, 2
Here are four events. Place them in the proper order:
1. Portia attempts to find Brutus but send Lucius instead 2. Cinna the Poet dies 3. Brutus speaks 4. Antony speaks |
What is Pathos?
Sigmund Freud's idea of the Id is most closely connected to which of Ethos, Pathos, or Logos?
|
F and M desecrated monuments and decorations meant for Caesar in order to weaken his ego.
What did Flavius and Murellus do and why?
|
Who is Caesar?
Let me have men about me that are fat;
Sleek-headed men and such as sleep o' nights: Yond [redacted] has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous. Who said this? |
What is logos?
Cassius argues with Brutus that they should kill Antony when assassinating Caesar. Brutus says the following:
Our course will seem too bloody, Caius Cassius, To cut the head off and then hack the limbs, Like wrath in death and envy afterwards; This is an example of which of the argumentative techniques? |
4, 5, 2, 3, 1
Here are five events. Place them in the proper order.
1. The ghost of Brutus' past (ghost of Caesar) says he'll see Brutus at Phillipi. 2. Brutus accuses Cassius of taking bribes. 3. Cassius offers his life up to Brutus. 4. Octavius, Antony, and Lepidus form a hit list of conspirators. 5. Antony compares Lepidus to a horse. |
What is Ethos?
During one of the Socratic seminars yesterday, one of your fellow students, in response to my assertion that Pop Tarts are a poor excuse for a breakfast food, argued that affordability matters in food choices and that because I, Romeyn, own a certain kind of car, I had no right to pass judgement on such purchases.
|
Who is Pindarus?
Who accidentally makes a fatal mistake when they Cassius that his best friend died?
|
Who is Cassius?
Who compares the Romans to sheep in a speech to another senator?
|
What is logos?
Cassius says to Brutus "I was born free as Caesar; so were you / We both have fed as well, and we can both /
Endure the winter's cold as well as he." Here, Cassius is using ______ to persuade Brutus. |
2, 3, 4, 1, 5
Here are five events. Place them in the proper order.
1. Decius convinces Caesar to go to the senate. 2. Portia compares herself to a whore. 3. Porita shows her hubsand her leg wound. 4. Calpurnia informs her husband of her dream and how it stinks of ill omen and a foreboding future. 5. Calpurnia's husband declares himself "as constant as the northern star" |
What are the Formalist and Historical Approaches?
Of the four critical approaches we've studied this year (Formalism, Historical, Psychological, and Sociological), identify which TWO would be the most obviously useful for fully understanding Caesar?
|