Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
Analyzing the Rhetorical Strategies of Antony’s Speeches
Literary Devices in Act 3.2
Rhetorical Strategies:
Repetition
Irony- verbal or situational
Parallelism
Rhetorical Questions
Imagery
Figurative LanguageSimile, metaphor, hyperbole
Alliteration
Persuasive Appeal:
Logos
Pathos
Ethos
Directions: Read each speech to find the Rhetorical Strategies. Analyze each from “top to bottom.” This means to
look for the literary devices chronologically through the speech. Name the literary rhetorical strategy or persuasive
appeal and list the line number next to the device.
Ex: Antony’s ”revenge” soliloquy 3.1
Simile and imagery (285-287)
Act 3.2 Antony’s speeches
1.Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears (82-111):
2. But yesterday (130-149)
3. Have patience (152-170)
4. If you have tears (181-209)
5. Good friends (222-243)