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? What is the speaker saying? Who are they saying it to? ? What…
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Act III, Scene i, lines 64-79 CAESAR I could be well moved, ifI were as you. IfI could pray to move, prayers would
move me. 65 But I am constant as the Northern Star, Of whose true fixed and resting quality There is no fellow
in the ?rmament. The skies are painted with unnumbered sparks; They are all fire, and every one do…
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? What is the speaker saying? Who are they saying it to?
? What kinds of metaphors are they using, and what do those metaphors mean?
? What is the speaker trying to convince their audience to do or feel? Why are they trying to convince their audience of this?
what kind of rhetorical mode(s) of persuasion the speaker is engaging in (logos, pathos, and/or ethos).
? If the speaker is using logos:
What evidence are they presenting?
How are they presenting it?
Are they being truthful, or is the evidence being misrepresented?
Is their evidence material, such as a physical object, or is it rhetorical, such as a series of “logical” statements?? If the speaker is using pathos:
What emotion are they attempting to make their audience feel?
What kinds of metaphors do they use and what kind of images do they conjure in the attempt to make their audience feel that emotion? Why might those metaphors/images evoke this emotion?
Why do you think the speaker is trying to make their audience feel that way?? If the speaker is using ethos:
How do they prove they are an authority or worthy of trust?
Are they establishing themselves as a state authority, or a more personal authority (a confidant, a close friend, a lover, etc.)?
Are they using their authority to constructive or destructive ends?
3. Come to a judgment as a group regarding the success of the speaker’s persuasive speech.
? Does the speaker succeed in creating a compelling argument for their figurative audience (their fellow characters)? Do they get what they are trying to convince their audience to give them?? Does the speaker’s argument convince you, the literal audience?? If the speaker’s speech is unsuccessful, why is it a failure? Why do you believe it fails to compel the audience?
