Rhetoric Device Vocab

Kind souls, what, weep you when you but behold / Our Caesar's vesture wounded?

Alliteration

I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, / But here I am to speak what I do know.

Antithesis

Will you be patient? Will you stay awhile? / I have o'ershot myself to tell you of it.

Aporia

My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, / And I must pause till it come back to me.

Aposiopesis

For Brutus, as you know, was Caesar's angel; / Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar loved him!

Apostrophe

What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him? / O judgement! Thou art fled to brutish beasts, / And men have lost their reason.

Apostrophe

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.

Conduplicatio

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.

Hyperbole

Good friends, sweet friends, let me not stir you up / To such a sudden flood of mutiny.

Irony

I feel I wrong the honorable men / Whose daggers have stabb'd Caesar; I do fear it.

Irony

Let but the commons hear this testament, / Which, pardon me, I do, I do not mean to read

Paralipsis or Irony

Show you sweet Caesar's wounds, poor poor dumb mouths, / And bid them speak for me

Personification

For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, / Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech

Polysyndenton

Here was a Caesar! When comes such another?

Rhetorical Question

Did this Caesar seem ambitious?

Rhetorical question

I thrice presented him a kingly crown, / Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?

Rhetorical question

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears

Synecdoche

I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts: / I am no orator, as Brutus is; / But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man, / That love my friend; and that they know full well / That gave me public leave to speak of him.

Understatement