Find 2 puns, 2 metaphors, 2 similes, 3 images, and complete 2 scansions of sentences to check for iambic pentameter in Act 1 scenes 1-2 of Caesar
Images
1. You bear too stubborn and too strange a hand
Over your friend that loves you.
This can be considered an image because it is depicting a hand that exists only hypothetically, which is being stubborn toward someone that loves him.
2. No, Cassius; for the eye sees not itself,
But by reflection, by some other things.
This is an image because it is speaking of how the human eye in general cannot see itself but only when one is looking at a reflection.
- Scansions
� u u � � u u �
- Of your/ profess/ion? Speak, /what trade/ art thou?
� � u � � - � -
- Where is/ thy leath/er ap/ron and/ thy rule?
Simile
*#1 Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world**
Like a Colossus, and we petty men
Walk under his huge legs and peep about
To find ourselves dishonourable graves.*
This is important to the story because it talks about how Caesar doesn�t
think anything about the �petty men� because he thinks he is better than
them.
*#2 I will do so. But, look you, Cassius,
The angry spot doth glow on Caesar's brow,
And all the rest look like a chidden train*
This is important because this means that all the people look very old
from all the drama that is going on.
Metaphors -
�And since you know you cannot see yourself
So well as by reflection, I, your glass,�
�Now, in the names of all the gods at once,
Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed,
That he is grown so great?�
- Pun
*#1 Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus, and we petty men
Walk under his huge legs and peep about
To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
Men at some time are masters of their fates:
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.*
This is important because they are indeed underlings of Caesar in the
literal sense of the word because Caesar is king. Before he states that
he gives another meaning of the word saying that they run between his
legs like they are actually underneath him. This is a common way that
Shakespeare would play with words to get alternate meanings from them.