| LEND ME YOUR EARS | Synechdoche- he is using ears to refer to attention |
| DID THIS IN CAESAR SEEM AMBITIOUS | Rhetorical question- the questioner isn’t asking for an answer |
| WAS THIS AMBITION | Rhetorical question- the questioner isnt asking for an answer |
| I SPEAK NOT TO DISPROVE WHAT BRUTUS SPOKE,/ BUT I AM HERE TO SPEAK WHAT I KNOW | Antithesis- the two statements contrast each other in a parallel fashion |
| O JUDGEMENT! THOU ART FLED TO BY BRUTISH BEASTS< AND MEN HAVE LOST THEIR REASON | Apostrophe- Antony is turning from talking to the people to talking to Judgement |
| AND I MUST PAUSE TILL IT COME BACK TO ME | Aposiopesis- Antony uses a pause for emphasis |
| I SHOULD DO BRUTUS WRONG AND CASSIUS WRONG: I WILL NOT DO THEM WRONG: TO WRONG THE DEAD, TO WRONG MYSELF AND YOU, THAT I WILL WRING | Conduplicatio- Repetition of wrong for emphasis |
| WHICH, PARDON ME, I DO NOT MEAN TO READ | Paralipsis- Antony is pretending to omit the testament by drawing attention to it. |
| GO AND KISS DEAD CAESAR’S WOUNDS DIP THEIR NAPKINS IN HIS SACRED BLOOD BEG A HAIR OF HIM FOR MEMORY | Hyperbole- Antony is overexaggerating Caesars death |
| WILL YOU BE PATIENT? WILL YOU BE PATIENT? WILL YOU STAY AWHILE? I HAVE O’ERSHOT MYSELF TO TELL YOU OF IT. | Aporia- Antony is feigning self doubt for emphasis. |
| I FEEL I WRONG THE HONORABLE MEN WHOSE DAGGERS HAVE STABB’D CAESAR; I DO FEAR IT. | Irony- He refers to the men who killed caesar as honorable which he does not believe. |
| JUDGE< O YOU GODS< HOW DEARLY CAESAR LOVED HIM! | Apostrophe- sudden turn from the audience to the gods |
| WHAT WEEP YOU WHEN… WOUNDED | Alliteration- through the repetition of W. |
| LET ME NOT STIR YOU UP/ TO SUCH A SUDDEN FLOOD OF MUTINY | Irony, because he intends to stir crowd to ‘such a sudden flood of mutiny’ |
| I AM NO ORATOR, AS BRUTUS IS… | Understatement- Antony is a much better orator than Brutus |
| I HAVE NEITHER WIT, NOR WORDS, NOR WORTH,/ ACTION, NOR UTTERANCE, NOR THE POWER OF SPEECH | Polysyndeton- the use of repetition of ‘nor’ |
| SWEET CAESAR’S WOUNDS, POOR POOR DUMB MOUTHS,/ AND BID THEM SPEAK FOR ME | Personification- Giving ‘wounds’ the human characteristic of speaking |
| WHEN COMES SUCH ANOTHER | Rhetorical question- Antony does not want an answer, he is just asking the question for emphasis. |
Act Three Standard Focus: Analysis of Rhetoric 2006 Secondary Solutions Julius Caesar Literature Guide (You’re Welcome)
April 15, 2020