How is the purpose of Anthony's speech achieved with figurative language?Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

Marc Antony's funeral oration after Caear's assassination
is given with two intents:

1. It is meant to
   disprove what Brutus says about Caesar's being
   ambitious


2. It is meant to turn the people against the
   conspirators and cause civil unrest.

These
intents are achieved by Antony's effective use of rhetorical devices and moving
emotion:

Since Marc Antony has had to agree to follow the
oration of Brutus and since he has agreed to not blame the conspirators and to "speak
all good you can devise of Caesar" (3.1.245), Marc Antony uses verbal
irony to disabuse the Romans of the belief that Caesar was too
ambitious.  For instance, when he says

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But Brutus says he was
ambitious,

And Brutus is an honourable man
(3.1.94-95)

Antony juxtaposes
this remark with an example of Caesar's noble acts such as bringing home "many captives
to Rome" and placing their ransoms in the general coffers.  Then he asks the
rhetorical question,

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Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?
(3.1.98)

In a like manner,
Antony says that Ceasar attended the cries of the poor, but "Ambition should be made of
sterner stuff (3.2.100).  And, he uses antitrosphe (the
repetition of same word or phrase at the end of successive
clauses):

Yet
Brutus says he was ambitious;

And Brutus is an honorable
man

A third time Antony
uses verbal irony as he recalls that he offered Caesar a
king crown three times, but Caesar refused it.

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...Was this ambition? [rhetorical
question]

Yet Brutus says he was
ambitious;

And sure he is an honorable man.
(3.2.106-107)

At one point,
Antony pauses emotionally, employing
metaphor,

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My heart is in the coffin there with
Caesar

And I must pause till it come back to me.
(3.2.115)

After he recovers,
Antony brings out Caesar's body and points to the places where "envious Cassius" put his
dagger and Brutus, too.  Employing apostrophe, Marc Antony
calls close attention to the character of Brutus with
irony:

For
Brutus, as you know, was Caesar's angel,

Judge, O you gods,
how dearly Caesar loved
him!

(3.2.191-192)

Finally,
Antony breaks his promise not to speak against the conspirators as he foments the
crowd by showing them the wounds of Caesar; and, when he addresses them, saying that
Caesar has been "marred as you see with traitors":

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But were I
Brutus,

And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony
[anadiplosis]

[anadiplosis
is the rhetorical repetition of one or
several words;specifically, repetition of one word that ends one clause at the beginning
of the next]

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Would ruffle up your spirits, and put a
tongue

In every wound of Caesar's that should
move

The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.
(3.2.236-240)