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Julius Caesar Rhetorical Devices

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Izabella Figueroa Mrs. Linda Comm Honors English 10 12 April 2023 Antony’s preeminent strategy A rhetorical device, according to www.vocabulary.com, is “a use of language that is intended to have an effect on it’s audience.” In Antony’s persuasive speech to the citizens of Rome, from “The Tragedy of Julius Caesar,” Antony utilizes the rhetorical devices of logos, pathos, and ethos to argue that Caesar wasn’t really ambitious, and there was no need for him to be murdered by the conspirators. Doing so forces the audience to consider his claim and change their previous viewpoints. To begin, the rhetorical device of logos is very commonly used among those trying to persuade a targeted audience to take their side, using logic, to convey the information. This device is used multiple times throughout Antony’s speech, and is the primary tool focused on by Brutus in his public cry. The contrast is that Brutus is using the device more to show his accountability, honor, and to better reason logistically with the crowd. He also gears more towards the logic of things …show more content…

Whereas, on Antony’s part, he plays all the cards by using a variety of the three rhetorical devices, logos still being presented, but to contradict the logic of Brutus. One way that Antony uses logos to get the audience to sway to his side was in Act 3, Scene 2 when Antony states, “The noble Brutus hath told you Caesar was ambitious: if it were so, it was a grievous fault, and grievously hath Caesar answer’d it.” This is a valid quote proving his logos technique because firstly, it is using an “if-then” statement. It is showing that if something were to happen, like Caesars’ supposed ambition, then another thing would follow, being his answering to it, otherwise known as his death. The second reason this shows logos is because it is using logical reasoning to say that

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