Julius Caesar Skill: Compare and Contrast StudySync

How can comparison and contrast be used to analyze and understand characters, themes, or topics in a text?

• By identifying similarities and differences between different characters, themes, or topics

• By examining the relationships and interactions between different characters, themes, or topics

• By highlighting the key attributes and qualities of different characters, themes, or topics

• By summarizing the main events and plot points related to different characters, themes, or topics

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Comprehending a text

What skill does the text 'Identifying similarities and differences between two or more things' relate to?

• Critical thinking

• Problem solving

• Comprehending a text

• Creative writing

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Comprehending a text

How can the skills of comparing and contrasting be applied to everyday decision-making?

• By analyzing the similarities and differences between different options

• By randomly choosing what to wear or buy

• By asking others to make the decision for you

• By ignoring the options and making a decision impulsively

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Comprehending a text

Why did Shakespeare deviate from the source material and what effect on his audience does he hope to achieve by doing so?

• To create a more dramatic or engaging storyline

• To challenge the audience's expectations and provoke thought

• To appeal to a wider audience by modernizing the story

• To stay true to the original source material

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Identifying Similar Events or Details

In what way does Shakespeare's treatment of the source material differ from or expand upon it?

• He adds new characters and subplots

• He removes certain events and details

• He changes the setting of the story

• He uses the same dialogue and plot structure

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Identifying Similar Events or Details

What did Shakespeare rely on to gain background information about the characters and events in his historical plays?

• Primary sources

• Secondary sources

• A wide variety of source materials

• Folklore and myths

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Understanding the Source Material

What skill does the passage test your ability on?

• Identifying Similar Events or Details

• Summarizing the Text

• Analyzing Character Motivations

• Identifying Metaphors and Similes

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Identifying Similar Events or Details

What skill is being tested when comparing and contrasting Shakespeare’s plays and his background sources?

• Identifying Similar Events or Details

• Understanding Character Motivations

• Analyzing Literary Devices

• Interpreting Symbolism

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Identifying Similar Events or Details

Which of the following statements best summarizes the passage from Plutarch’s Lives?

• Antony gives a eulogy over the body of Caesar in the forum, but the citizens do not listen.

• The citizens burn Rome following a speech by Brutus about why he and others killed Caesar.

• As a result of hearing the will of Caesar, which leaves money to each citizen, the crowd seeks revenge against the

  men who killed him.

• The crowd runs to the houses of the conspirators to burn them down with flaming sticks from Caesar’s funeral pyre.

Which line from Julius Caesar best illustrates how Shakespeare connects the actions of the crowd described in Plutarch’s text with a specific trigger or cause, thereby creating more drama?

• “Read the will! we’ll hear it, Antony;

• "’Tis good you know not that you are his heirs; / For if you should, O, what would come / of it!”

• “I fear I wrong the honorable men Whose daggers have stabb’d Caesar; I do fear it.”

• “Room for Antony!--most noble Antony!”