Category: Education
Created by: Carissa
Number of Blossarys: 6
English (EN) 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 ...
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".
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.
Iambic is Shakespeare's most popular meter. It is the opposite of trochee - / like pretend. It is used commonly throughout Julius Caesar.
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.
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.
Rhetoric is the art of persuasion in speech or writing. In Julius Caesar a common theme is persuasion, thus there is plenty of rhetoric throughout the play.
By: Carissa