Casca: “...I saw Mark Antony offer him a crown —- yet ‘twas not a crown neither, ‘twas one of these coronets...”

(1.2.235-237).

11. Identify the symbol.

What does it symbolize?

A simile is a stated comparison between two things that are actually unlike but have something in common; similes express the comparison clearly by the use of the word like or as.

Cassius: “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” (1.2.135-138).

12. What two things are being compared?

13. How are they similar?

14. Puns are a play on words, using the same sounds and/or double meanings. Explain the DOUBLE meaning of the pun by Cassius.

Cassius: “No, Caesar hath not it; but you, and I, And honest Casca, we have the falling sickness” (1.2.255-256).