1. 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

2. Who speaks in poetry? Who speaks in prose? Who speaks in blank verse? why?

3. Identify at least 5 characteristics found in the characters of Caesar, Brutus, and Cassius.

 

1.

 

1. The second says that he is a mender of bad souls, cobble relating to the coble stone
2. 2 metaphors: “I hear a tongue, shriller than all the music”  “I am a surgeon to old shoes”
3. 2 similies: “Brutus all the rest look like a chidden train.” “Why man he doth bestride the narrow world like a colossus.”
4. 3 images: "Men, all in fire, walk up and down the streets." “such a deal of stinking breath because Caesar refused the crown that it had almost choked Caesar; for he swounded and fell down at it: and for mine own part, I durst not laugh, for fear of opening my lips and receiving the bad air.” The peasants horrendous breath. "Let me have men about me that are fat, sleek-headed men..."

                     

5. scansions:

You blocks/ you stones/ you worse/ then sense/ less things.
Home you /Idle creatures/ Get you/ Home this/ A holiday

2.

 

1. The royalty speaks in poetry.

2. The peasants use prose.

3. Writers used the black verse. This is used to make the play normal.

 

 

3.

 

Caesar:

                1. Ambitious

                2. Cautious

                3. Smart

                4. Commanding

                5. Has pride

 

Brutus:

                1. Honorable

                2. Noble

                3. Trusting

                4. Powerful

                5. Determination

 

Cassius:

                1. Observer

                2. Studies

                3. Questions

                4. Dishonest

                5. Noble