Have you ever thought you understood a person based on a story that you have heard about them? Have you ever guessed about a person's personal life because of the clothes they wore? Or, have you judged a person because of their friends? Although classifying people in this way is typically discouraged, authors deliberately use your preconceived ideas to help you form an opinion about the character or to at least have a better understanding. Can you think of a time that you made a character call about someone based on external aspects? Were you correct, or incorrect? Has anyone ever made an incorrect assessment of you based on external aspects? Write two paragraphs about it in your journal.

How does the motif in this passage connect to the central idea? read the excerpt from act 5, scene 1, of julius caesar octavius come come, the cause. if arguing make us sweat the proof of it will turn to redder drops look, i draw a sword against conspirators when think you that the sword goes up again? never, till caesar's three and thirty wounds be well avenged, or till another caesar have added slaughter to the sword of traitors the blood motif suggests that revenge will lead to violence and death the omens motif suggests that octavius will die avenging caesar's death the sword motif suggests that all leaders are eventually assassinated the flattery motif suggests that the conspirators will eventually turn on one another