Merchant Of Venice Flashcards

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Saladino zoomorphism of the wind

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“That curtsy to them, do them reverance,And fly by them with woven wings”

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4 quotes for Shylock being dangerous

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“I hate him for he is a christian”
“I will be assured as I may”-anadiplosis
“I will feed the ancient grudge I bear him”-zoomorphism

“Ships are but boards, sailors are but men”-mesodiplosis

“I bore it with a patient shrug”

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4 quotes for Shylock being ambitious

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“He lends out money gratis”
“What part of your body pleaseth me”
“There is no power in the son of man to alter me”-maxim(christianity)
“I’ll have my bond”-Euphemis,

“I will be assured as I may”

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3 quotes for Shylock being greedy?

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“I crave the law”
“I’ll plague him”
“I’ll torture him”

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4 quotes for Shylock wanting revenge?

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-“it will feed my revenge”-zoomorphism
“I would my daughter were dead at my foot”
“And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

“If every ducat in six thousand ducats were in six parts and every part a ducat, I woulf not draw them. I would have my bond

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7 Shylock as being broken

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“In the Rialto you have hindered me about my monies and usances”

“Spit upon my Jewish gaberdine”

“He hath discraced me”

“You spay on me Wednesday last”

“Jew”

“Laughed at my loses, marked at my gains”-antithesis of situation but same reaction

“Foot me as you spurn a stanger cur”-simile

Hath not a jew hands, organs, senses affections,passions?-emotive-pathos

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Describe Antonio’s character?

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“Roman honour”
“Dearest friend to me”
“Tainted weather of the flock”

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Describe Bassanio as broke

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“I have disabled mine estate”

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3 quotes for Antionio being sad

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“I am to learn”-pathos

“i hold the world but as the world Gratiano”-mesodipolosis

“Mine a sad one”-pathos

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2 quotes for Antionio being racist

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“To spit on thee again, to spurn thee too”-mesodiplosis

“Much kindness in the Jew”-emotive

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3 Quotes for Antionio’s love of Bassanio?

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“Give me your hand, Bassanio”-symbolises marriage

“Let him,have the ring:let his deservings and my love withal”-anaphora

“Did lend my body for his wealth”-sexual connotations

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2 Quotes from for Portia as innocent?(conferring with Elizabethan England)

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“direction of a maiden’s eyes”-sexual connotations, emotive: eyes

“Little body is aweary of this great world”-antithesis(juxtaposed ideas emphasises her innocence”

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Portia being highly powerful

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“There is no power in Venice that can alter a decree esabliahed”-Portia power-emotive language

“Shed one drop of Christian blood thy lands are, by the laws of Venice, confiscate’- Christian blood-Euphemism + synedoche,

-Epistrophe on Venice-she “controls” Venice’s laws

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3 Portia being educated/smart

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‘I remember him well and I remember him worthy of thy praise”-anaphora(good memory-obervant)

“We’ll see our husbands before they think of us”-foreshadowing

“We must measure twenty miles to-day”-specfic distances-smart in details

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Quotes for Portia bwing trapped

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“Will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father” antithesis

“I may neither choose who i would,nor refuse who I dislike” Can’t do either antithesis-can’t do anything-trapped

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Bassanio as unitelligent?

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“May you stead me? will you pleasure me? shall I know your answer?”-desperate-Shylock can charge any price

“Virtue of the ring……gave the ring………… contain the ring…………… accepted the ring”- epistrophe shows the ring’s importance and Bassanio being desperate-no pre planning