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What is a form/category of literature? What are some examples of this? |
genre, examples are action,romance,horror,etc |
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What is unity in a short story? |
Everything in a short story should work towards a single unified effect. |
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What is the physical location of the story, time, historical background, and lifestyles of the characters called? |
setting |
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What is the main character of the story called, the person that the story revolves around? |
protagonist |
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What is the person or force working against the main character? |
antagonist |
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What is theme? |
the central idea of a literary work. |
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What is an object, place, or person that represents something bigger and more universal? |
symbol |
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What is characterization? |
creating believable characters. |
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What is a character that does not change? |
static character |
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What is a dynamic character? |
character that changes |
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What is a character with one or two personality traits? |
flat character |
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What is a character with many personality traits? |
round character |
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What is the point of view? |
the perspective from which the story is told |
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What type of POV is when the main character tells the story and uses I,we,me,us, and the reader knows what the narrator knows,sees,thinks,and does? |
1st person POV |
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What type of POV is when the narrator is telling the story from the characters perspective and describes the characters actions and thoughts? |
2nd Person POV |
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What type of POV is when the narrator knows some but not all of the info needed to resolve e conflict? |
3rd person limited POV |
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What is 3rd Person Omniscient POV? |
when the narrator knows everything including all characters thoughts |
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What type of irony is when one person says or writes another thing but means another, opposite? |
verbal |
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What is dramatic irony? |
When the audience knows something that the characters don’t. |
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What type of irony is something happening that is very different to what was expected? |
situational irony |
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What is conflict? |
when people or forces are fighting against eachother with intensity. |
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What is internal conflict? |
man vs. self |
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What is fighting something outside of oneself?w |
external conflict |
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What are the types of external conflict? |
man vs God, man versus man, man versus nature, man versus society, man versus machine/technology |
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What is the plot of “The Cask Of Amontillado?” |
Montressor is trying to get revenge of Fortunado and is trying to kill him. It starts in Italy during carnival. The tone is insane and dark. |
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What is the plot of “ Just Lather, That’s All”? |
A man is getting a haircut, but the barber tries to kill him! The tone of the story is dark in unsettling. |
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What is the plot of “The Stub Book?” |
A farmer is growing pumpkins, and someone steals. His pumpkins. He gets into a fight with the people that stole his pumpkins. Beautyseeker gets his pumpkins back, but he sells them. |
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What is the plot of “Thank you M’am?” |
Hey, boy tried to steal a woman’s purse, but the woman catches him and drags him to her house to teach him a lesson. The woman cleans him up, feeds him and give him money. The boy leaves and never saw her again. |
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Who is a great general of Rome, was has recently won a civil war against Pompey and return to Rome in triumph? |
Caesar |
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Who is Caesar’s nephew. Called to Rome by his uncle, he is greeted on its outskirts by the news of Caesar’s death? |
Octavius |
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Who is Caesar’s closest companion? |
Antony |
A young man much given to reveling, enjoying music and plays, he runs in the sacred race of the Feast of Lupercal, touching Calpurnia on the way in the hopes of curing her barrenness. |
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Who is a Senator of Rome? |
Lepidus |
He is present at Caesar’s death, and flees from it. |
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Who is a noble Roman, the last to stab Caesar, and the one who Caesar trusted? |
Brutus |
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Who is a noble Roman, last to stab Caesar, and he is the one who Caesar trusted? |
Brutus |
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Who is a noble Roman, and the mastermind behind Caesar”s assassination? |
Cassius |
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Who is cynical Roman with no great taste for Caesar’s fooling over the crown. He tells Brutus and Cassius what happens to Caesar at the Feast of Lupercal?T |
Casca |
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Who are tribunes of the People of Rome who are executed for disrobing Caesar’s statues? |
Trebonius and Ligarius |
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Who learns of the conspiracy against Caesar and attempts to warn him, but is unable to get his message through? |
Artremidorious |
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Who warns Caesar of the Ides of March, without giving any further details, being thereby accounted a dreamer? |
Soothsayer |
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Who is Caesar’s wife? |
Calpurnia |
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Who is the daughter of Cato and the wife of Brutus. She is the definition of a stoic Roman woman? |
Portia |
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List at least 8 of the conspirators mentioned in the play? |
Casca, Decius, Cinna, Metellys, Cimber, Ligarius, Trebonius, Brutus |
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When Caesar enters Rome at beginning of the play he has just defeated? |
Pompey |
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Who is Caesar’s only friend? |
Brutus |
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What feast is being celebrated? |
Lupercal |
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When does Caesar have a seizure? |
When the people cheer him |
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What happens to Flavius and Marullus? |
They are executed for de-robing Caesar’s statues. |
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What are 3 facts about Caesar? |
He has epilepsy, he is deaf in one ear, and he nearly drowned |
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Why do Cassius and Brutus miss the celebration? |
Because they are discussing their fears about Caesar |
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Who tells Cassius and Brutus what happens at the celebration? |
Casca |
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What are 3 things that happened in Rome in Julius Caesar?While s |
A lion wanders the streets but does not attack, men are on fire but do not burn, owls screech in the daytime. |
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While sitting alone in his garden Brutus concludes that Caesar? |
Will change his personality when he becomes king. |
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When Cassius suggests that they also kill Antony, Brutus… |
Argues to kill only Caesar and his heir, Octavius |
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What did Calpurnia see in her dream?To |
A statue of Caesar spouting blood. |
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To convince Caesar to go to the Senate, Decius… |
Reinterprets the meaning of Calpurnia’s dream into something positive. |
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What does Artemidorous try to give Caesar?Pro |
A letter of warning |
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Portia asks the soothsayer about Caesar because? |
She wants to know what Brutus is planning. |
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Who is the lady conspirator to stab Caesar? |
Brutus |
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Immediately after the conspirators stab Caesar… |
Cassius arrests Calpurnia |
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Why do the conspirators say that they have killed Caesar? |
They want Rome to remain free, and Caesar’s ambition will turn him into a tyrant. |
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What does Antony’s servant tell Brutus? |
Antony will be loyal to Brutus, if Brutus gives a good reason for killing Caesar. |
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Brutus agrees to let Antony speak at Caesar’s funeral, but… |
Brutus must speak after Antony. |
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At Caesar’s funeral, Brutus… |
says he killed Caesar for the good of Rome. |
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What is Caesar’s fatal flaw, according to Brutus? |
Ambition |
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When Brutus speaks the crowd… |
accepts what Brutus says |
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During his funeral oration, Antony… |
refers to Brutus as honorable |
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Who reads Caesar’s will? |
Antony |
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When Antony points out Caesar’s wounds, and names the conspirators, the crowd… |
calls for revenge |
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What has Caesar left for the citizens in his will? |
His orchards and gardens. |
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Describe Gregor at the beginning, middle, and end of the story. |
He worked for his family to make money for them. One day he turned into a beetle, and no one knows why. He grows bigger, gets injured and ends up dying. |
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Describe Grete at the beginning, middle, and end of the story. |
Gregor’s sister, she was very sweet to Gregor at the beginning,when he turned into a bug, but then she changed, and started to hate taking care of Gregor, and wanted to get rid of him. |
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Describe Gregor’s father at the beginning, middle, and end of the story. |
He is very strict and straightforward. He wants everything done in his way. And even ends up injuring Gregor and wants to get rid of him. He was kind to Gregor at the beginning, but when he turned into a bug he didn’t want anything to do with him. |
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Describe Gregor’s mom at the beginning, middle and end of the story. |
She is very compassionate and said about Gregor’s form at first, but she grows to just be tired of the situation and wants to get rid of him as well. |
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