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Julius Caesar Terminology
Allusion
• Reference to something from history or
literature.
Anachronism
• Representation of someone as existing or
something as happening in other than
the chronological, proper, or historical
order.
• Something out of time.
Apostrophe
• Addressing something which is not
present, such as an idea or city.
• The direct address of an absent or
imaginary person or of a personified
abstraction, especially as a digression
in the course of a speech or
composition.
Aside
• A piece of dialogue intended for the
audience and supposedly not heard by
the other actors on stage.
• Thought spoken aloud, not heard by
other characters.
Blank Verse
• Verse consisting of unrhymed
lines, usually of iambic
pentameter.
• Unrhymed poetry.
Contraction
• A word, as won't from will not, or phrase,
as o'clock from of the clock, formed by
omitting or combining some of the
sounds of a longer phrase.
• Words joined together or a word
shortened by using an apostrophe
Couplet
• A unit of verse consisting of two
successive lines, usually rhyming and
having the same meter and often forming
a complete thought or syntactic unit.
• Two rhyming lines
Diacritical Mark
• An accent mark above, below, or
through a written character—for
example, the acute (’) and grave
(`) accents.
• Shows accent for pronunciation
Foreshadowing
• To present an indication or a
suggestion of beforehand
• Hints at something to come.
Irony
• Dramatic Irony
– Audience knows something that certain characters on
stage do not know
• Verbal Irony
– Saying the opposite of what is intended
• Irony of Situation
– An unexpected twist ( the opposite of what would be
expected)
Metaphor
• A figure of speech in which a word or
phrase that ordinarily designates one
thing is used to designate another, thus
making an implicit comparison, as in “a
sea of troubles” or “All the world's a
stage” (Shakespeare).
• Describe something as being something
else
Personification
• A person or thing typifying a certain
quality or idea; an embodiment or
exemplification: “He's invisible, a walking
personification of the Negative” (Ralph
Ellison).
• Describe something non-human as
having human qualities or features
Pun
• A play on words, sometimes on
different senses of the same word
and sometimes on the similar
sense or sound of different words.
• Play on words for humor
Simile
• A figure of speech in which two
essentially unlike things are compared,
often in a phrase introduced by like or
as, as in “How like the winter hath my
absence been” or “So are you to my
thoughts as food to life” (Shakespeare).
• Comparison of unlike things, using like
or as.
Prose
• Ordinary speech or writing, without
metrical structure.
• Fiction or non-fiction (non poetry)
Verse (as opposed to prose)
• A single metrical line in a poetic
composition; one line of poetry.
• Poetry
Soliloquy
• A dramatic or literary form of discourse in
which a character reveals his or her
thoughts when alone or unaware of the
presence of other characters.
• Speech alone on stage.
Symbol
• Something that represents something
else by association, resemblance, or
convention, especially a material object
used to represent something invisible.
• Something that represents something
greater.