the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses.

a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money)

a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as (as in cheeks like roses)

attribution of personal qualities

an implied or indirect reference especially in literature

the addressing of a usually absent person or a usually personified thing rhetorically

to stain or defile morally

a crowd or crowded condition

“Truly, sir, all that I live by is the awl:”

“And do you now put on your best attire?

And do you now cull out a holiday?

And do you now strew flowers in his way...”

“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.”

“Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world

like a Colossus, and we petty men

walk under his huge legs and peep about

to find ourselves dishonorable graves.”

“I have seen tempests, when the scolding winds

have rived the knotty oaks, and I have seen

th’ ambitious ocean swell and rage and foam...”

“Poor man, I know he would not be a wolf

but that he sees the Romans are sheep;

he were no lion, were not Romans hinds.”

“Caesar cried ‘Help me, Cassius, or I sink!’

I, as Aeneas, our great ancestor,

did from the flames of Troy upon his shoulder

the old Anchises bear, so from the waves of Tiber

did I the tired Caesar.”

“But, O, grief,

where hast thou led me...”

“Vexed I am

of late with passions of some difference,

conceptions only proper to myself,

which give some soil perhaps to my behaviors;”

“Who is it in the press that calls on me?

I hear a tongue, shriller than all the music,

Cry ‘Caesar.’ Speak; Caesar is turned to hear.”