Brutus' Rhetorical Style

Rhetorical Devices

in

Brutus' Speech

Style Techniques

Parallelism:
● Repetitive verbal phrases in grammatical

structure, sound, meter, meaning etc.

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Parallelism

● Antimetabole

○ Repeating a phrase in reverse

order

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Parallelism

○Repetition of the

beginnings of
sentences to get the
audience’s attention

Anaphora

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Logical Fallacy:

Either-Or
(False Dilemma)

• Reducing an issue to only a few

choices where only one choice is
obvious

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Logical Fallacy:

Either-Or
(False Dilemma)

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Logical Fallacy:

GlitteringGeneralities

• Using “good” labels, such as

democratic, patriotic, amazing,
beautiful, and exciting that are
unsupported by facts.

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Logical Fallacy:

GlitteringGeneralities

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