‘The torrent roar’d, and we did buffet it.’ This quote shows personification and I believe that it has been used here so you can imagine how rough the water and how stormy the day was when Cassius supposedly saved Caesar from drowning. ‘The torrent roar’d’ means that the water was choppy and that it was stormy, windy and probably raining.

‘Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus.’   ‘Throwing it aside and stemming it with hearts of controversy.’    ‘I plunged in and bade him follow.’   ‘A wretched creature and must bend his body, If Caesar carelessly but nod on him.’   ‘Alas, it cried ‘Give me some drink, Titinius,’ as a sick girl.’

The verbs in the quotes above are used by Cassius to get his point across. He uses this very enthusiastically and almost like he is full of excitement. The use of verbs gets his point across and to persuade Brutus that Caesar is the enemy and that he is his ally and friend. He tries to get him to be on his side. Verbs help him because they let him speak his mind and he can say what he wants full of enthusiasm. He presents his ideas by saying words that really describe what he is talking about. The pattern in his speech is that he is very descriptive about what he talks about. For example, when he was talking about saving Caesar from drowning he made it seem that he was a hero. He said, ‘I, as Aeneas, our great ancestor, Did from the flames of Troy upon his shoulder The old Anchises bear, so from the waves of Tiber Did I the tired Caesar.’ His language is very imaginative and puts a picture in your mind of how he saved Caesar.