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Rhetoric in Julius Caesar Acts 1-2

Quiz by Suzanne Bradburn

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  • Q1
    And do you now put on your best attire? And do you now cull out a holiday? And do you now strew flowers in his way, That comes in triumph over Pompey's blood?
    anaphora and rhetorical question
    asyndeton and rhetorical question
    analogy and anaphora
    euphemism and rhetorical question
    30s
  • Q2
    And since you know you cannot see yourself so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself that of yourself which you yet know not of.
    analogy
    parallelism
    rhetorical question
    rebuttal
    30s
  • Q3
    Brutus and Caesar: what should be in that "Caesar"? Why should that name be sounded more than yours?
    polysyndeton
    ethos
    analogy
    rhetorical question
    30s
  • Q4
    You look pale, and gaze, and put on fear, and cast yourself in wonder, to see the strange impatience of the heavens...
    concession
    asyndeton
    polysyndeton
    analogy
    30s
  • Q5
    But, O grief, where hast thou led me?
    apostrophe
    repetition
    parallelism
    understatement
    30s
  • Q6
    O Conspiracy, sham'st thou to show thy dang'rous brow by night, when evils are most free?
    rhetorical question and polysyndeton
    apostrophe and repetition
    apostrophe and rhetorical question
    euphemism and rhetorical question
    30s
  • Q7
    Swear priests and cowards and men cautelous, old feeble carrions, and such suffering souls that welcome wrongs...
    asyndeton and parallelism
    parallelism and polysyndeton
    anaphora and asyndeton
    polysyndeton and metaphor
    30s
  • Q8
    Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods, not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds
    parallelism
    anaphora
    rhetorical question
    asyndeton
    30s
  • Q9
    I grant I am a woman; but withal a woman that Lord Brutus took to wife. I grant I am a woman, but withal a woman well reputed, Cato's daughter.
    pathos and apostrophe
    pathos and anaphora
    ethos and anaphora
    chiasmus and ethos
    30s
  • Q10
    If Caesar hide himself, shall they not whisper, "Lo, Caesar is afraid?"
    asyndeton and logos
    pathos and rhetorical question
    ethos and rhetorical question
    pathos and anaphora
    30s
  • Q11
    Caesar should be a beast without a heart if he should stay at home today for fear. No, Caesar shall not; Danger knows full well that Caesar is more dangerous than he. We are two lions littered in one day, and I the elder and more terrible; and Caesar shall go forth.
    parallelism and metaphor
    parallelism and asyndeton
    anaphora and repetition
    repetition and metaphor
    30s
  • Q12
    "Speak, strike, redress!" Am I entreated to speak and strike? O Rome, I make thee promise, if the redress will follow, thou receivest thy full petition at the hand of Brutus!
    polysyndeton and metaphor
    rhetorical question and anaphora
    asyndeton and apostrophe
    asyndeton and metaphor
    30s
  • Q13
    And this man is now become a god, and Cassius is wretched creature, and must bend his body if Caesar carelessly but nod on him.
    aphorism
    asyndeton
    polysyndeton
    anaphora
    30s

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