This question has two parts. First, answer Part 1. Then, answer Part 2. Part 1 Read the excerpt from Julius Caesar, Act 2, scene 1. PORTIA. If this were true, then should I know this secret. I grant I am a woman, but withal A woman that Lord Brutus took to wife. I grant I am a woman, but withal A woman well reputed, Cato’s daughter. Think you I am no stronger than my sex, Being so fathered and so husbanded? Tell me your counsels; I will not disclose 'em. I have made strong proof of my constancy, Giving myself a voluntary wound Here in the thigh. Can I bear that with patience, And not my husband’s secrets? BRUTUS. O ye gods, Render me worthy of this noble wife! [Knocking within] Hark, hark, one knocks. Portia, go in a while, And by and by thy bosom shall partake The secrets of my heart. All my engagements I will construe to thee, All the charactery of my sad brows. Leave me with haste. Which conclusion does this excerpt best support?
Read the excerpt from Julius Caesar , act 1, scene 2. BRUTUS: Ay, Casca. Tell us what hath chanced today, That Caesar looks so sad. (225) CASCA: Why, you were with him, were you not? BRUTUS: I should not then ask Casca what had chanced. CASCA: Why, there was a crown offered him: and being offered him, he put it by with the back of his hand, thus; and then the people fell a-shouting. (230) What does the symbol of a crown represent in this excerpt?
Read the excerpt from Julius Caesar , act 1, scene 1. [FLAVIUS.] Go you down that way towards the Capitol; This way will I. Disrobe the images, If you do find them decked with ceremonies. MARULLUS: May we do so? (65) You know it is the feast of Lupercal. FLAVIUS: It is no matter; let no images Be hung with Caesar’s trophies. I’ll about, And drive away the vulgar from the streets: So do you too, where you perceive them thick. (70) These growing feathers plucked from Caesar’s wing Will make him fly an ordinary pitch, Who else would soar above the view of men, And keep us all in servile fearfulness. [Exeunt] How does this scene most contribute to the plot?
Read the excerpt from Julius Caesar , act 1, scene 1. [FLAVIUS.] See whether their basest mettle be not moved. (60) They vanish tongue-tied in their guiltiness. Go you down that way towards the Capitol; This way will I. Disrobe the images, If you do find them decked with ceremonies. MARULLUS: May we do so? (65) You know it is the feast of Lupercal. FLAVIUS: It is no matter; let no images Be hung with Caesar’s trophies. I’ll about, And drive away the vulgar from the streets: So do you too, where you perceive them thick. What do Flavius and Marullus hope disrobing the images and statues of Caesar and taking down his trophies will indicate about Caesar?
Read the excerpt from Julius Caesar , act 1, scene 1. FLAVIUS: But wherefore art not in thy shop today? Why dost thou lead these men about the streets? COBBLER: Truly, sir, to wear out their shoes to get myself into more work. But indeed, sir, we make holiday (30) to see Caesar and to rejoice in his triumph. MARULLUS: Wherefore rejoice? What conquest brings he home? What tributaries follow him to Rome To grace in captive bonds his chariot wheels? You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things! (35) O, you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, Knew you not Pompey? Many a time and oft Have you climbed up to walls and battlements, To towers and windows, yea to chimney-tops, Your infants in your arms, and there have sat (40) The livelong day, with patient expectation, To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome. And when you saw his chariot but appear, Have you not made an universal shout, That Tiber trembled underneath her banks (45) To hear the replication of your sounds Made in her concave shores? And do you now put on your best attire? And do you now cull out a holiday? And do you now strew flowers in his way, (50) That comes in triumph over Pompey’s blood? Be gone! Run to your houses, fall upon your knees, Pray to the gods to intermit the plague That needs must light on this ingratitude. FLAVIUS: Go, go, good countrymen, and, for this fault (55) Assemble all the poor men of your sort; Draw them to Tiber banks, and weep your tears Into the channel, till the lowest stream Do kiss the most exalted shores of all. [Exeunt all the Commoners] Which quotations from this excerpt are examples of imagery? Choose two correct answers.
Which sentence contains the strongest example of imagery?
What is imagery in a play?
What is symbolism in a play?
Read the excerpt from Julius Caesar , act 2, scene 4. SOOTHSAYER: None that I know will be; much that (35) I fear may chance. Good morrow to you. Here the street is narrow. The throng that follows Caesar at the heels, Of senators, of praetors, common suitors, Will crowd a feeble man almost to death. I’ll get me to a place more void, and there (40) Speak to great Caesar as he comes along. What are the purposes of the imagery in this excerpt? Choose three correct answers.
Read the excerpt from Julius Caesar , act 2, scene 4. PORTIA: I prithee, boy, run to the Senate House; Stay not to answer me, but get thee gone.— Why dost thou stay? LUCIUS: To know my errand, madam. PORTIA: I would have had thee there and here again (5) Ere I can tell thee what thou shouldst do there. [Aside] O constancy, be strong upon my side; Set a huge mountain 'tween my heart and tongue. I have a man’s mind, but a woman’s might. How hard it is for women to keep counsel! (10) [To LUCIUS] Art thou here yet? LUCIUS: Madam, what should I do? Run to the Capitol, and nothing else? And so return to you, and nothing else? PORTIA: Yes, bring me word, boy, if thy lord look well, For he went sickly forth; and take good note (15) What Caesar doth, what suitors press to him. Hark, boy, what noise is that? LUCIUS: I hear none, madam. Which conclusion does this excerpt best support?
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