Caesar Literary Term Quiz
25 Questions
| Attempts: 87
The play of Caesar consists of a lot of grammar that can be helpful to a person learning English. The Caesar literally term quiz below is designed to improve one’s grammar from the play. Give it a try and see if you remember the play as it was. All the best!
Questions and Answers
- 1.Long speech or written expression of one character in a literary work spoken to another character
- 2.Audience have info characters don't know
- 3.Humorous use of words with two meanings, usually missed by the reader because of Elizabethan language
- 4.Conversation between characters
- 5.In a play, a comment made by a character to the audience or another character but not heard by the other characters on stage
- 6.High ranking person who has many admirable characteristics and a fatal tragic flaw and suffers a downfall
- 7.A long speech spoken by a character in a dramatic work who is alone on stage and reveals the character's private thoughts/emotions
- 8.Written instructions that explain how the characters should look, act,speak, and move
- 9.A form of dramatic irony in which a character uses words that means one thing to the speaker and another to those better acquainted with the situation
- 10.A variation of standard language spoken by a group of people of a particular region
- 11.A written play in which the tragic hero suffers a downfall
- 12.A weakness within the tragic hero that causes his downfall
- 13.A figure of speech in which a person, an personified inanimate being, or abstraction is addressed as though present
- 14.A meter made up of five iambic feet to a line or verse
- 15.Ordinary writing that is not song, poetry, or drama (characters in the low social class speak this way in Shakespeare's plays)
- 16.Intentional exaggeration to emphasize a point
- 17.Methods a writer uses to reveal the personality of the character
- 18.A regular pattern of stressed or unstressed syllables that gives the line or verse a predictable rhythm
- 19.Poetry or lines of dramatic written verse in unrhymed iambic pentameter; each foot contists of one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
- 20.Writing that exposes and ridicules the vices or follies of people or society
- 21.Attributing human characteristics to an inanimate object
- 22.The repetition of sound in the initial consonant in two or more neighboring words
- 23.Something that represents or stands for something else
- 24.A comparison between two unlikely things
- 25.A comparison using like or as
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