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Common Rhetorical Devices - Examples

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  • "... weep your tears Into the channel, till the lowest stream Do kiss the most exalted shores of all," (1.1.62-64)
    Hyperbole
  • "You blocks! You stones! You worse than senseless things! / O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome!" (1.1.35)
    Metaphor
  • "Swear priests and cowards and men cautelous, Old feeble carrions and such suffering souls" (2.1.129-130)
    Polysyndeton
  • O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason. Bear with me; My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, And I must pause till it come back to me. (LOGOS, PATHOS, or ETHOS)
    Pathos
  • Come I to speak in Caesar’s funeral. He was my friend, faithful and just to me (LOGOS, PATHOs, or ETHOS)
    Ethos
  • "Lend me your ears"
    Metonymy
  • "As Caesar lov'd me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was valiant, I honor him; but as he was ambitious, I slew him," (3.2.24-28).
    Parallel Structure
  • "Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more."
    Antithesis
  • "For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men–"
    Verbal Irony
  • "‘Speak, strike, redress!’" (2.1.55)
    Asyndeton
  • Had you rather Caesar were living, and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live all freemen?
    Rhetorical Question