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Repetition And Rhetorical Devices In Brutus's Funeral Speech

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“We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, never to be undone” - William James. In The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, two of Caesar’s closest friends, Brutus and Antony, give speeches at his funeral following his assassination. Brutus claims that he killed Caesar for the good of Rome, and Antony claims that Caesar was not ambitious: meaning his death was wrong. Both characters use rhetorical questions, repetition, and parallel structure to prove their claims. In Brutus’ funeral speech, he uses parallel structure, repetition, and rhetorical questions to prove his claim that Caesar’s death was for the good of Rome. At the start of his speech, Brutus asks the crowd to believe him for his “honour” and to respect his “honour”
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