Category: Education
Created by: Carissa
Number of Blossarys: 6
English (EN) A trochaic meter is when two syllable words. The stress pattern is / - like the word season. This is used to command attention like Antony's start of his speech.
A feminine rhyme is when there is an extra unstressed syllable at the end of the line. "I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him." In this case "him" is the extra syllable.
Iambic is Shakespeare's most popular meter. It is the opposite of trochee - / like pretend. It is used commonly throughout Julius Caesar.
This is a unique rhetorical technique used when a word with the same root word is repeated for effect. This is different than pure repetition because the word will have different suffixes.
A Caesura is a natural pause in a line of poetry which tends to occur in the middle of a line. "He was my friend (CAESURA) faithful and just to me".
A speech made after a funeral usually designed to say good things about the person who has passed away. Some people argue that there are two eulogies in the play while others say only Mark Antony's ...
This is a specific type of rhetorical question where Antony asks the opinion of the audience while suggesting that there is a common interest.
By: Carissa