Rhetorical Appeals In Julius Caesar

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In The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Brutus is a stoic man and he's also Caesar's best friend. Brutus thinks Caesar is ambitious so he slews him for Rome. He approaches the Romans with mob mentality because he doesn't want them to think that he killed Caesar for the throne. He did this because he values reason above emotion although, when he says, "Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more," Brutus is showing us a comparison between his love of Caesar and his love of Rome by using these opposite words, less and more, What rhetorical appeals does the speaker use? He is using what is called "Antithesis" and "Epimone." What is the main idea of the speech? What is the speaker's purpose? The speaker's purpose is to get the crowd to agree

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