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Question 9 • CREDIT RECOVERY - ELA 9 - Summer

Which quotation from act 1.3 in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar is the best example of foreshadowing?

Answer
A
CASSIUS:Why all these fires, why all these gliding ghosts,Why birds and beasts from quality and kind—Why old men, fools, and children calculate
B
CASSIUS:That heaven hath infused them with these spiritsTo make them instruments of fear and warningUnto some monstrous state.
C
CASCA:It is the part of men to fear and tremble,When the most mighty gods by tokens sendSuch dreadful heralds to astonish us.
D
CASCA:O, he sits high in all the people’s hearts,And that which would appear offence in usHis countenance, like richest alchemy,Will change to virtue and to worthiness.

Explanation

Cassius says the strange events are “instruments of fear and warning” about “some monstrous state.” This points ahead to the coming violence and political upheaval in Rome, so it foreshadows events that have not yet happened. The other quotations describe unusual signs or Caesar’s popularity, but B most clearly predicts a troubling future.

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