stylistic 91

Question 1

Tua illa pulchra laudatio, tua miseratio, tua cohortatio

Answer 1

tricolon for emphasis

Question 2

tu, tu

Answer 2

anaphora
Cicero is writing as if he is orating, which makes the text seem more like a speech. This gives emphasis to his words as it gives a tone of disbelief or accusation. tu is a direct address and therefore seems more accusatory and highlights Antony’s audacity

Question 3

incedisti… incensa

Answer 3

polyptoton

Question 4

semustulatus

Answer 4

rare word for emphasis and attention drawing

Question 5

domus deflagravit

Answer 5

alliteration of harsh sound ‘d’, emphasises the destruction of the home.

Question 6

tu illos

Answer 6

juxtaposition - you = v personal; others = v impersonal

Question 7

impetus perditorum hominum et ex maxima parte servorum

Answer 7

similar language to letter to Atticus

Question 8

quasi fuligine abstersa

Answer 8

similie

Question 9

preclara

Answer 9

sarcastic

Question 10

perpetuum

Answer 10

clever pun because Caesar has been make a dictator perpertuum (title)

Question 11

omne

Answer 11

with metum - enclosing order all their fear is surrounding the last dictatorship, emphasising the magnitude of such fear