... masterpiece. Therefore Socrates is not portraying his character in the right manner, and has put his audience in a frame of mind that does not help his plight at all. This irony no way fulfils the rhetoric function. In his speech of defense Socrates tries to explain how his inquiring on behalf of the Oracle actually led to him being branded as ... ...

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... corrupting the youth is as follows. Socrates had a prophecy about being the wisest man in the city but then acknowledged to himself that he wasn't; this is an example of irony. After Socrates acknowledged not being the wisest man in all of Athens he then began to go around and question the politicians and high citizens of the city on their ... ...

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