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kkaayylla
kkaayylla
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High School - 10th Grade

What is the expostion, complication, foreshadowing, puns,symbols, metaphors, aside, symbols, and monologue in "Julius Caesar"?

and indirect/direct characterizationand dramatic irony, and turning point.-just some examples of some of these. please. i will need all the help i can get. i ihave a quiz on this tomorrow. i dont need the definitions of any of these but just some examples in the tragedy of julius caesar. thanks a lot. please give a reponse withing the next half hour -thanks.

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Posted by kkaayylla on Wednesday November 19, 2008 at 7:00 PM and tagged with exposition, foreshadow, julius caesar, literary devices, plot, puns, symbols.

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  1. kkaayylla
    kkaayylla Student
    High School - 10th Grade

    it me kkaayylla people. HHHHEEEEELLLLPPPPP MMMEEEEE PPPPPPPPPPPLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSEEEEEEEE!!!!! i really need ytour help. any accurate details will help me. please, i have been waiting on this computer for over 2 hours and i stilll dont have a respone. i am telling you that anything accurate you posst will actually help me. by the way, this isnt the answer to my question. HELP ME PLEASE!! i will fail this quiz of mine if i at least dont get a detail of what is going on. remember that i dont need the definitioin of these words, but i do need examples from the julius caesar book. by the way;i put the word -symbols- on the question 2 times, but it was by accident. Help and thanks.

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    Posted by kkaayylla on Wednesday November 19, 2008 at 8:20 PM

  2. mwestwood
    mwestwood Teacher
    Community / Jr. College

    eNotes Editor

    As you know most of Shakespeare's tragedies are in 5 acts, so the exposition is the first act where characters enter and complications are introduced:  The soothsayer warns Caesar about the Ides of March, but he ignores the seer.  This sets up (complication)   Marullus remarks that Caesar keep the Romans in "servile fearfulness foreshadowing danger to Caesar.  Ironically, Caesar notices that Cassius "has a lean and hungry look (direct characterization)..such men are dangerous I,ii,194-195).

    Dramatic irony-The audience, knowing that Caesar will be assasinated watches him set out on the Ides of March.

    Pun--I,ii,284    (Casca earlier tells Cicero spoke Greek, then he says "It was Greek to me, which means one doesn't understand and Cicero spoke the Greek language also)

    Metaphor-I,ii,300-302 This rudeness is a sauce to his good wit/Which gives men stomach to digest his words/With better appetite     III,i,204 Here wast thou bayed, brave hart (Caesar=deer)  III,i,79

    Solioquy-Antony's speech alone over dead Caesar.ll254-275

    Monologue-Antony's oration before the Romans:  "Friends, Romans, countrymen...III,ii,74 ff

    Indirect  Characterization-"But Brutus is an honorable man/So are they all, all honorable men " (Said with verbal  irony since the audience knows only what has been told them, but Antony knows of the conspiracy.)

    aside-Cassius says one thing to Antony in III,i,177, but expresses his true feelings in an aside beginning in line 232

    Sources:
    http://www.enotes.com/jc

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    Posted by mwestwood on Wednesday November 19, 2008 at 9:21 PM