Julius Caesar Study Guide

Copy these and repeat the following process for these different terms.
Term, Definition, Example(s).

• Monologue: A technique writers use to reveal the emotions and thoughts of characters by having them talk with no one responding. This usually involves other people, things, or objects, but they do nothing.
  
  
  
  1. EX: Bernie Mac and his speeches during his television show.
  
  
  
  
• Soliloquy: A technique writers use to reveal a person’s inner turmoil or thoughts in detail. This is essentially talking to one’s self aloud.




1. EX: Going through your day’s schedule in the morning, thinking aloud about how you plan to talk to a young man or young woman that you like.

Here are some helpful websites which should aid you in your research/defining...

1. Rhetorical Devices


2. Rhetorical Devices with Old Greek/Roman texts


3. Advanced Literary Terms Dictionary


4. High School Literary Terms Dictionary


5. Propositions

• conflict—


• internal conflict—


• external conflict—


• character vs. character—


• character vs. society—


• character vs. the non-human (technology, nature, etc.)—


• character vs. self—


• blank verse—


• iambic pentameter—


• foot—


• rhetoric—


• anaphora—


• refrain—


• parallelism—


• antithesis


• allusion—


• propaganda—


• card stacking—


• name calling—


• testimonial—


• bandwagon—


• empty phrases (glittering generalities)—


• plain folks—


• proposition of fact—


• proposition of value—


• proposition of problem—


• proposition of policy—


• logical persuasion—


• analogy persuasion—


• emotional persuasion—


• authority persuasion—


• tragedy—


• tragic figure (tragic hero)—