Read the following from shakespeare's julius caesar, spoken by mark
anthony
the noble brutus
hath told you caesar was ambitious:
if it were so, it was a grievous fault,
and grievously hath caesar answer'd it.
what type of rhetoric does the character primarily use to try to persuade his
audience?

The speaker is using Irony, Logos type of rhetoric device to persuade the audience.

Explanation:

One of the rhetorical devices used in the speech by “Mark Antony” in Julius Caesar by Shakespeare is 'Irony'. Irony is when something that is happening is opposite to what is expected to happen. He said that people believed that Caesar was ambitious, but the irony is that he wasn't.  He called Brutus a noble man.

Speaker gives several proofs using 'Logos' rhetoric device to prove that Caesar was not ambitious. He gave many reasons to prove the same to the audience. According to him, he would have enslaved all the Roman citizens and become a dictator in case he had lived.

a term is used to describe a sudden revelation in a short story is "showing forth".