ELA rhetorical devices Julius Caesar

Anagnorisis

The moment of realization of a truth and produces a change from ignorance to knowledge

"I am a very foolish fond old man, /fourscore and upward, not an hour more or less;/ and to speak plainly,/ I fear I am not in my perfect mind"

Anagnorisis

"Ah me! Ah me! All brought to pass, all true! / O light, may I behold thee nevermore!/ O stand a wretch, in birth, in wedlock cursed, / a parricide, incestuously, triply cursed

Anagnorisis

Anaphora

the repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or verses.

Antimetabole

in rhetoric, a verbal pattern in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first, but in the reverse grammatical order A-B-C, C-B-A

"You forget what you want to remember, and remember what you want to forget"

Antimetabole

"We didn't land on Sherwood forest, Sherwood forest landed on us"

Antimetabole

Antithesis

the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced phrases or clues

"We notice things taht don't work. We don;t notice things that do. We notice computers, we don't notice pennies, We notice e-book readers, we don't notice books"

Antithesis

"Hillary has soldiered on, damned if she does, damned if she doesn't like most powerful women, expected to be tough as nails and warm as toast at the same time"

Antithesis

"My only love sprung from my only hate"

Antithesis

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; It was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness"

Antithesis

Appeals to Pathos

emotion, base instincts

"Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say today, my friends. And so even through we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream"

Appeals to Pathos

"Its Friday. How many bald eagles did wind turbines kill today? They are an enviromental and aesthetic disaster"

Appeals to Pathos

Appeals to Logos

appeals to logic/facts/reason

Apostrophe

talking to something that can't respond as if it was alive

"Age, thou are shamed"

Apostrophe

Appeals to Ethos

Persona/ appeals to ethics/ morality

"I am your voice...I alone can fix it. I will restore law and order"

Appeal to Ethos

Chiasmus

the second half of an expression is balanced against the first with parts reversed

"I had a teacher I liked who used to say good fiction's job was to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable"

Chiasmus

"Dont sweat the petty things- and don't pet the sweaty things"

Chiasmus

Dramatic Irony

When the audience knows something that the characters do not

Enumeratio

detailing parts, causes, effects, or consequences to make a point more forcibly

"When we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of Gods children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual"

Enumeratio

Isocolon

a succession of phrases, clauses, or sentences at approximately equal length and corresponding structure

"Nothing that is beautiful hides its face. Nothing that is honest hides its name"

Isocolon

"An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvience rightly considered"

Isocolon

Juxtaposition

two or more ideas, places, characters and their actions are placed side by side in a narrative or a poem for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts

"Grieve men, near death who see with blinding sight/ Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay/ Rage rage against the dying of the light"

Juxtaposition

"I fear I wrong the honorable man Whose daggers have stabbed Caesars, I do fear it"

Juxtaposition

Epistrophe

The opposite of anaphors, repetition at the end of successive clauses

"You hear no evil, you speak no evil"

Epistrophe

But it was famed with more than with one man?... That her wide walls encompised but one man... When there is in it but one only man?

Epistrophe

Litotes

An ironical understatement which the affirmative is expressed by negating the opposite

"Im not as young as I used to be"

Litotes

"You wont be sorry"

Litotes

Parison

corresponding structure in a series of phrases or clauses (adjective to adjective, noun to noun)

"The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons"

Parison

"The milk chocolate melts in your mouth- not your hand

Parison

"Write them together, yours is as fair as a name. Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well. Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with them"Brutus will start a spirit as soon as "Caesar

Parison

"I know that thou would not be a wolf, but he sees the romans are all but shee. He were no lion, were not roman hinds"

Parison

Synechdoche

A part of something represents the whole, or the whole represents the part

Black or white logical fallacies

You presented two alternative states as the only possibilities, when in fact more possibilities exist.

"Whilst rallying support for his plan to fundamentally undermine citizens rights, the supremem leader told the people they were on his side or against it"

Black or white logical fallacies

"Why do you fear it? Than must think you would not have it so"

Black and white logical fallacies

False Cause

You presumed that a real or perceived relationship between things means that one is the cause of the other.

"Pointing to a fancy chart, Roger shows how temps have been rising over the past few centuries, while the number of pirates have been decreasing, thus pirates cool the world and global warming is a hoax"

False Cause

Spondee

Two stressed syllables

"Were he not gone/ The woodchuck could say whetther its like his/ long sleep, as i describe its coming on/ or just some human sleep"

Spondee

"We are, I am, you are/ by courdice or courage/ the one who find our way/ back to this scene/ carrying a knife, a camera/ a book of mytths in which/ our names do not appear"

Spondee

Polysyndecton

the use of many conjunctions between phrases

"Nor stony tower, nor walk of beaten brass, nor direless dragon"

Polysyndecton

"Romans, countrymen, lovers, hear me for my caseand ne silent that you may hear. Be me for mine honor and have respect to mine honor that you may believe

Appelation

Chiasmus

Appeal to Ethos

"Had you rather Caesar were living and die all slaves than Caesar were daed, to live all freeman"

Antithesis

Black and White logical fallacies

Appeal to Logos

"who is here so hate, who is here so vile, who is here so rude

Anaphora

"I weep for hum, as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it, as it was valiant, I honor him, but ass he was ambitious, I slew him"

Enumertio

Isocolon

Appeals to Pathos

"Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more"

Parison

"You gentle romans... Friends romans, countrymen, lend me your ears

Appellation

"Brutus said he was ambitious and brutus is a honorable man" times 3

Anaphora

"But yesterday the word of Caesar might have stood up against the world. Not lies he there, and none so do him resurance

Antithesis

"I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, but here I am to speak what I do know"

Isocolon

"Yea beg a hair of him for memory, and dying, mention it within their walls, beneahing as a rich luzury unto their issue"

Isocolon

"I fear I have wronged the honorable man whose daggers have stabbed caesar"

Juxtapotision

" You all did love him once, not without cause"

Litotes

"When the poor have cried, Caesar hat wept, ambition should be made of stronger stuff"

Parison

" I am no orator as Brutus is, but as you know me all aplain blunt man that love my friend

Ethos

"look you here! Here is himself, marred as you see with traitors

Pathos

"You all did see that on the luperal I thrice presented him a kingly crown, when he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition"

Logos