Julius Caesar Act I, Scene i Quiz (Figurative Language)

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10 questions

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Instructions

Julius Caesar Act I, Scene i Quiz (Figurative Language)

Last updated about 2 years ago

10 questions

Note from the author:

We use this when beginning Julius Caesar as a starting point to determine where students are with figurative language in verse.  

Instructions

Read all lines and passages thoroughly before answering the questions. 

Hence! Home,you idle creatures, get your home!

A trade, sir, that, I hope, I may use with a safe
Conscience, which is indeed, sir, a mender of bad soles. 

Have you not made an universal shout,
That Tiber trembled underneath her banks
To hear the replication of her sounds
Made in her concave shores?

Go, go, good countrymen, and, for this fault,
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.

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 percieve them thick.
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.  

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 percieve them thick.
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.

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 percieve them thick.
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.

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 percieve them thick.
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.

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 percieve them thick.
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.

Julius Caesar Act I, Scene i Quiz (Figurative Language)

Julius Caesar Act I, Scene i Quiz (Figurative Language)

Which of the following best describes the literary term "metaphor"?

This line is an example of

The combination of the word "conscience" with the phrase "mender of bad soles" creates a

The reference to the Tiber River is an example of

The weeping of tears into the river is an example of

What does Flavius mean when he says they will "drive away the vulgar from the streets"?

What do the "growing feathers" represent in this metaphor?

Which of the following best describes what it means to make Caesar fly an "ordinary pitch"?

Who is Flavius worried will "soar above the view of men"?

Which of the following best represents the overall meaning of the metaphor?