Persuasive Speech Related to Julius Caesar Directions Directions: You are going to write your own persuasive speech which includes the rhetorical devices of logos, pathos, ethos, parallelism/repetition, rhetorical question, and analogy.

Topics of choice for the speech:
1. Brutus is selfless fighter or Brutus is traitor
2. Antony is a good leader to take charge of Rome

Step 1: Identify your topic and write your speech. Your speech should be at least a page in length.

Step 2: Once you have written your speech, you need to highlight the rhetorical devices you incorporated into your speech by using the following color code.
Logos
Pathos
Ethos
Parallelism/Repetition
Rhetorical Question
Analogy

*Some parts of your speech may qualify as 2 rhetorical devices. For instance, a line in your speech might be great ethos and pathos. Either choose the rhetorical device you think is stronger in that situation. Or color half of the line pink and half of the line yellow.

Step 3: Lastly, you will create an “analysis key” that explains your color coding. On a separate document, you will list your rhetorical examples and explain why you believe they are the device you listed them as.

Read the excerpt from "the most dangerous game." a man, who had been hiding in the curtains of the bed, was standing there. "rainsford! " screamed the general. "how in god's name did you get here? " "swam," said rainsford. "i found it quicker than walking through the jungle." the general sucked in his breath and smiled. "i congratulate you," he said. "you have won the game." rainsford did not smile. "i am still a beast at bay," he said, in a low, hoarse voice. "get ready, general zaroff." the general made one of his deepest bows. "i see," he said. "splendid! one of us is to furnish a repast for the hounds. the other will sleep in this very excellent bed. on guard, rainsford." . . he had never slept in a better bed, rainsford decided. adrian is writing an essay about "the most dangerous game.” which detail from the excerpt best supports his idea that rainsford is unchanged and still feels that the hunter is justified in killing the hunted? a man, who had been hiding in the curtains of the bed, was standing there. "swam," said rainsford. "i found it quicker than walking through the jungle." rainsford did not smile. "i am still a beast at bay," he said, in a low, hoarse voice. "get ready, general zaroff." he had never slept in a better bed, rainsford decided.

Read this paragraph from chapter 5 of the prince. there are, for example, the spartans and the romans. the spartans held athens and thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. the romans, in order to hold capua, carthage, and numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. they wished to hold greece as the spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. so to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. and he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. and whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the florentines. what idea is stressed in the passage? the desire for liberty the establishment of an oligarchy the dismantling of an acquired state the tendency toward rebellion

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