Marc Antony
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How to be as persuasive as Abe Lincoln and Marc Antony, Part 2: Use irony, the twist we can't resist
I almost let the Ides of March slip by without reexamining Marc Antony’s “Friends, Romans, Countrymen” speech. It is a model of rhetorical brilliance — and a model for “The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President.” Both speeches were built around one of the most important figures of speech: irony Irony derives from the Greek eironeia (”dissimulation”), […]