Cataline Conspiracy (And Rhetoric Techniques)

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Do not the nightly guards on

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Palatine Hill, and the union of all good men, have any effect on you?

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Do you not

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feel your plans are detected?

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Shame on the

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age and on it's principals!

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This man lives. Lives!

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aye, he is watching and marking down and checking off for slaughter every individual among us

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Ought long ago to have been

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led to execution by command of the consul

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Did not that most illustrious man

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Publius Scipio, the Pontifex Maximus, put to death Tiberius Gracchus, though but slightly undermining the consitution?

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openly delirous to destroy

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the whole world with fire and slaughter

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he called

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Cicero a stranger, and a new inhabitant of Rome

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And so

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he rushed out of the temple

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Excite odium against

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Cicero, as having driven him out without any trial or proof of his guilt

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He is gone, he has

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departed, he has disappeared, he has rushed out

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monster and

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prodigy of wickedness

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We have, without controversy,

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defeated him, the sole guard of this domestic war

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We will not be afraid in

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the campus, in the forum, in the senate house- yes, and within our own private walls

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Anaphora

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repeating a word or phrase at start of succeeding clauses

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Apophasis

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drawing attention to an idea by denying it

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Apostrophe

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breaking off to address someone other than your main audience

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Asterismos

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exclamatory word at the start of a sentence

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Asyndeton

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a list or series of clauses without connectives

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Polysyndeton

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list with some connective repeated

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Bicolon

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2 fully balanced words or phrases

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Litotes

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understatement using a double negative

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Periodic sentence

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long sentence, many clauses, only concluded at the end

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Pleonasm

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use of more words than necessary

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Tricolon

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form of paralellism, 3 fully balanced words or phrases