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Mark Antony Rhetorical Devices

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The purpose of Mark Antony’s speech is to convince the public that the killing of Caesar was unjust. In order to achieve the purpose Antony uses rhetorical questions, allusions, repetition, and parallelism. Antony effectively uses the rhetorical devices by putting forward the main issues and manipulating words to be more basis for the main argument through the rhetorical devices. Antony uses rhetorical questions to make the public question what they once knew. Antony asks the public “Did this Caesar seem ambitious?” after explaining how Caesar helped captives come home. Therefore, this rhetorical question used contrived the public question Brutus as he made Caesar’s ambition look destructive for Rome. Furthermore, Antony tells the public “You
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Antony says rhetorical questions, and also allows the people to be able to speak back during his speech. “What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him?”(Ⅲ.Ⅱ. 31). Here is an example of when Antony uses rhetorical questions. Antony used this question to maninpulate people into feeling sorry that Ceasar has died. Antony was good at maninpulating people throughout his speech.

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By refusing to read the will several times and admitting that what it contains will cause the people to have such a great love for Caesar that knowing he is now dead will be unbearable, Antony ignites curiosity in the people and furthermore, a subconscious feeling of respect and graciousness toward Caesar. Basically, Antony uses Caesar’s will to convince the people that Caesar was a selfless, kind-hearted man and those who killed him should be ashamed and punished for killing an innocent man. Through Antony’s use of paralipsis, he is able to plant a seed of admiration for Caesar and one of hate for the conspirators in the hearts of the plebeians. In his speech to the citizens, Antony also asks many rhetorical questions to cause his audience to pause and reflect on how they really feel, or how Antony wants them to feel, about certain people and events that have recently become important. In one instance.

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Now the difference between the use of rhetorical questions in these speeches is that Antony's was used effectively, he worded it in such a way that stirred feelings as well as made them think. Brutus, on the other hand, only appealed to logic and talking to the citizens in such a way that almost offended them. Brutus says “Who is here so Vile that will not love his country?”. This is a rhetorical question that is weak because it is offending people in a way of making them feel bad if they don't love Rome with a burning passion. This isn't effective because the only thing this could do is make the romans feel as if they are being attacked.

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In William Shakespeare’s tragic play “Julius Caesar,” Mark Anthony remarkably masters oratorical manipulation through employing anaphora and connotative diction to foster dissent amongst the Romans. As Anthony reminisces on Caesar’s valiant actions, he empathetically repeats that the conspirators are “honorable men” while subtly insinuating that they are the “traitors [and] villains” who killed Caesar (3.2.137, 103, 108). Unable to speak ill of Brutus, Mark Anthony utilizes ambiguous connotations to disguise his true intention of avenging Caesar. Moreover, the anaphoric repetition’s variance in diction emphasizes Brutus’ reputation becoming increasingly deceitful and nearly comical, casting doubt on the true motives and credibility of the

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