English 2: Rhetorical Devices

Identify the rhetorical device in the following quote from Brutus's funeral speech:
"Had you rather Caesar were living, and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live all free men?" (III.ii.24-26)

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Onomatopoeia
• Rhetorical question

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Identify the rhetorical device used by the Cobbler in the following passage:
Marullus: But what trade art thou? Answer me directly.
Cobbler: A trade, sir, that I hope I may use with a safe conscience, which is indeed, sir, a mender of bad soles.
(I.i.12-15)

• Hyperbole
• Metaphor
• Pun
• Oxymoron

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Identify the rhetorical device used in the following lines from Flavius:
"Let no images be hung with Caesar's tropies. I'll about and drive away the vulgar from the streets. So do you too, where you perceive them thick. These growing feathers plucked from Caesar's wing Will make him fly an ordinary pitch,, Who else would soar above the view of men And keep us all in servile fearfulness." (I.i.73-80)

• Understate-ment
• Hyperbole
• Metaphor
• Irony

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Identify the rhetorical device in the following line spoken by the Soothsayer:
"Beware the ides of March" (I.ii.27).

• Foreshad-owing
• Verbal irony
• Dramatic irony
• Personification

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CCSS.RL.3.10

CCSS.RL.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.10

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.4.7

Identify the rhetorical device used in the following line spoken by Marullus:
"You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things! O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome..." (I.i.39-40)

• Understate ment
• Onomatopoeia
• Pun
• Metaphor

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Identify the rhetorical device used in the following lines by Brutus:
"Let's kill him boldly but not wrathfully. Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods, Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds." (II.i.185)

• Simile
• Understate ment
• Hyperbole
• Pun

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Identify the rhetorical device in the following lines spoken by Artemidorus as he prepares to warn Caesar:
"If thou read this, O Caesar, thou mayest live; if not, the Fates with traitors do contrive" (II.iii.15-16).

• Personification
• Pun
• Verbal irony
• Metaphor

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Identify the rhetorical device, spoken by Antony to the murderers:
"I doubt not of your wisdom." (III.i.200)

• Hyperbole
• Understate-ment
• Verbal irony
• Situational irony

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Identify the rhetorical device used in the following lines spoken by Antony in his funeral speech:
"I fear I wrong the honourable men Whose daggers have stabbed Caesar; I do fear it."

• Verbal irony
• Situational irony
• Hyperbole
• Metaphor

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Identify the rhetorical device in the following passage, spoken by Antony in his funeral speech:
"I tell you that which you yourselves do know, Show you sweet Caesar's wounds, poor poor dumb mouths, And bid them speak for me." (III.ii.236)

• Metaphor
• Hyperbole
• Verbal irony
• Personification

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3