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main concept

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  • the speeches of Brutus and Antony are good examples of rhetoric in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
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rhetoric

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  • appeal to emotion, logic, patriotism, ethics
  • repetition: words, phrases, form
  • parallelism: similar structure
  • analogy: comparison of similarities between two dissimilar things
  • juxtaposition: placing of dissimilar things in close proximity for comparison
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note

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  • Antony bends the crowd to his aims with an emotional appeal, telling them they will be “inflamed”
  • Antony baits the crowd (emotional appeal), suggesting they shouldn’t hear what he wants to tell them
  • Brutus uses parallel structure and juxtaposition – “Not that I loved” and “but that I loved”
  • Brutus makes an emotional, patriotic appeal that Caesar’s death is good for the Roman Commonwealth
  • Brutus uses parallel structure with opposites – glory not diminished; offenses not exaggerated
  • Antony twists words to make it as if Brutus were enciting the people to avenge Caesar, to mutiny
  • Antony uses repetition of “fell/fall” – “Caesar fell,” “what a fall was there,” “all of us fell”
  • Antony makes an emotional appeal - if people heard his will, the would “kiss dead Caesar’s wounds”
  • Brutus makes a logical appeal – If I behave as Caesar did, you do to me as I did to him
  • Brutus uses repetition - “Do grace

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