Casca:
a common slave—you know him well by sight—
held up his left hand, which did flame and burn
like twenty torches joined; and yet his hand,
not sensible of fire, remained unscorched. .
and there were drawn
upon a heap a hundred ghastly women,
transformèd with their fear, who swore they saw
men all in fire walk up and down the streets.
and yesterday the bird of night did sit
even at noonday upon the market-place,
hooting and shrieking. .
for i believe they are portentous things
unto the climate that they point upon.

portentous – adj. predicting the future.

what does this passage foreshadow?

a)rome will continue to prosper, and all citizens will be happy.
b)rome will suffer revenge at the hand of a slave.
c)rome will suffer danger and destruction.
d)rome will find a renewed peace once the bird of night leaves the market-place.

In this unit we learned about arguments and rhetoric. in an argument we use ,not informal language

Read the excerpt from act 1, scene 3, of julius caesar. cassius. am i not stayed for? tell me. cinna. yes, you are. o cassius, if you could but win the noble brutus to our party— cassius. be you content. good cinna, take this paper and look you lay it in the praetor’s chair, where brutus may but find it. and throw this in at his window. set this up with wax upon old brutus’ statue. all this done, repair to pompey’s porch, where you shall find us. is decius brutus and trebonius there? cinna. all but metellus cimber, and he’s gone to seek you at your house. well, i will hie, and so bestow these papers as you bade me. cassius. that done, repair to pompey’s theatre. what is cassius’s motivation for sending brutus the letter? cassius wants to make sure that cinna is on his side. cassius wants to reassure cinna that brutus will follow them. cassius wants to sway brutus to kill caesar. cassius wants to alert brutus about the conspiracy against him.

Drag the tiles to the boxes to form correct pairs. match each of ulysses's characteristics as an epic hero to an event in homer's odyssey. ulysses conceives of a plan to blind the cyclops. ulysses shouts out his name to the cyclops while leaving the island. jove orders calypso to allow ulysses to continue on his journey home. neptune raises storms to throw ulysses's ship off course. place event faces obstacles set by supernatural foes arrowright possesses human frailties and flaws arrowright receives from supernatural friends arrowright is braver and smarter than a typical man arrowright