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Act Three
Standards Focus: Analysis of Rhetoric
Directions: For each of the following underlined excerpts from Antony's speech in Act Three, scene 2, identify which rhetorical device is being used and explain how it is used, according to the definitions and examples on the previous pages. Note: not all devices will be used. An example has been done for you.
Example: For Brutus is an honorable man; / So are they all, all honorable men— (lines 77-78); But Brutus says he was ambitious; / And Brutus is an honorable man. (lines 81-82); Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; / And Brutus is an honorable man. (lines 88-89); Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; / And, sure, he is an honorable man. (lines 93-94); I should do Brutus wrong, and Cassius wrong, / Who, you all know, are honorable men (lines 118-119)
Rhetorical device:      irony through the constant, deliberate repetition of "ambitious" and "honorable"
i.    Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears (line 68)
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2.   Did this in Caesar seem ambitious? (line 85)
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 3.	I thrice presented him a kingly crown, / Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition? (line 92)
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 4.	I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, / But here I am to speak what I do know, (lines 95-96)
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5.	What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him? / Q judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts, /
And men have lost their reason,   (lines 98-99)
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6.	My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, / And I must pause till it come back to me. Qines 101-102)
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7.	I should do Brutus wrong, and Cassius wrong, Who, you all know, are honorable men. / I will not do
them wrong: I rather choose / To wrong the dead, to wrong myself and you, / Than I will wrong such
honorable men. (lines 118-122)
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8.	Let but the commons hear this testament, / Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read, (lines 125-126)
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9.	And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds / And dip their napkins in his sacred blood, / Yea,
beg a hair of him for memory, / And, dying, mention it within their wills, / Bequeathing it as a rich
legacy / Unto their issue, (lines 127-132)
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10.	Will you be patient? Will you stay awhile? /1 have o'ershot myself to tell you of it. (lines 144-145)
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11.	I fear I wrong the honorable men / Whose daggers have stabb'd Caesar: I do fear it. (lines 146-147)
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