
Rhetoric in Julius Caesar Acts 1-2
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- Q1And do you now put on your best attire? And do you now cull out a holiday? And do you now strew flowers in his way, That comes in triumph over Pompey's blood?anaphora and rhetorical questionasyndeton and rhetorical questionanalogy and anaphoraeuphemism and rhetorical question30s
- Q2And since you know you cannot see yourself so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself that of yourself which you yet know not of.analogyparallelismrhetorical questionrebuttal30s
- Q3Brutus and Caesar: what should be in that "Caesar"? Why should that name be sounded more than yours?polysyndetonethosanalogyrhetorical question30s
- Q4You look pale, and gaze, and put on fear, and cast yourself in wonder, to see the strange impatience of the heavens...concessionasyndetonpolysyndetonanalogy30s
- Q5But, O grief, where hast thou led me?apostropherepetitionparallelismunderstatement30s
- Q6O Conspiracy, sham'st thou to show thy dang'rous brow by night, when evils are most free?rhetorical question and polysyndetonapostrophe and repetitionapostrophe and rhetorical questioneuphemism and rhetorical question30s
- Q7Swear priests and cowards and men cautelous, old feeble carrions, and such suffering souls that welcome wrongs...asyndeton and parallelismparallelism and polysyndetonanaphora and asyndetonpolysyndeton and metaphor30s
- Q8Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods, not hew him as a carcass fit for houndsparallelismanaphorarhetorical questionasyndeton30s
- Q9I grant I am a woman; but withal a woman that Lord Brutus took to wife. I grant I am a woman, but withal a woman well reputed, Cato's daughter.pathos and apostrophepathos and anaphoraethos and anaphorachiasmus and ethos30s
- Q10If Caesar hide himself, shall they not whisper, "Lo, Caesar is afraid?"asyndeton and logospathos and rhetorical questionethos and rhetorical questionpathos and anaphora30s
- Q11Caesar should be a beast without a heart if he should stay at home today for fear. No, Caesar shall not; Danger knows full well that Caesar is more dangerous than he. We are two lions littered in one day, and I the elder and more terrible; and Caesar shall go forth.parallelism and metaphorparallelism and asyndetonanaphora and repetitionrepetition and metaphor30s
- Q12"Speak, strike, redress!" Am I entreated to speak and strike? O Rome, I make thee promise, if the redress will follow, thou receivest thy full petition at the hand of Brutus!polysyndeton and metaphorrhetorical question and anaphoraasyndeton and apostropheasyndeton and metaphor30s
- Q13And this man is now become a god, and Cassius is wretched creature, and must bend his body if Caesar carelessly but nod on him.aphorismasyndetonpolysyndetonanaphora30s