Blank Quiz

"Truly, sir, all that I live by is the awl." (a)  

• simile
• personificatoin
• allegory
• pun
• oxymoron

" And do you now put on your best attire? And do you now cull out a holiday? And do you now strew flowers on his way (a)   "

• anaphora
• metaphor
• paradox
• rhetorical shift
• allegory

“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.” (a)  

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• pun
• parallel structure

“Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus, and we petty men walk under his huge legs and peep about to find ourselves dishonorable graves.” (a)  

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• pun
• anachronism

“I have seen tempests, when the scolding winds have rived the knotty oaks, and I have seen th’ ambitious ocean swell and rage and foam (a)   ”

• simile
• metaphor
• personificatoin
• pun
• anachronism

“Poor man, I know he would not be a wolf but that he sees the Romans are sheep; he were no lion, were not Romans hinds.” (a)  

• apostraphe
• metaphor
• allusion
• anachronism
• parody

“Caesar cried ‘Help me, Cassius, or I sink!” I, as Aeneas, our great ancestor, did from the flames of Troy upon his shoulder the old Anchises bear, so from the waves of Tiber did I the tired Caesar.” (a)  

• simile
• allusion
• paradox
• blank verse
• inversion

“But, O, grief, where hast thou led me...”

• metaphor
• allusion
• apostrophe
• simile
• hyperbole

“Vexed I am Of late with passions of some difference, Conceptions only proper to myself, Which give some soil perhaps to my behaviors.”

• dirt
• grime
• stain
• blemish
• harm

“Who is it in the press that calls on me?” I hear a tongue, shriller than all the music, Cry ‘Caesar’ Speak; Caesar is turned to hear.”

• street
• reporters
• common people
• crowd
• senate