Writer's methods — Julius Caesar — AQA GCSE English Literature 8702
AQA GCSE English Literature · 8702
Writer's methods
Writer's methods
What you need to know
How Shakespeare's form, structure and language create meaning: tragedy and the tragic hero, a structure built around the assassination,
soliloquies, verse and prose, rhetorical techniques, dramatic irony, and imagery of blood, storms, animals and the stars.
Tragedy and the tragic hero: whether Brutus or Caesar is the play's hero, and a structure that puts the assassination at its centre.
Verse and prose: Brutus's prose funeral speech against Antony's verse, the crowd's prose, and soliloquies such as Brutus's 'It must be by his death'.
Rhetorical techniques such as rhetorical questions, repetition, irony and lists of three, and how Shakespeare compresses Plutarch's history for the stage.
Imagery of blood, storms, animals and the stars, and dramatic irony in Caesar's confidence on the Ides of March.
