Act 1 Scene 2

• my little body is aweary of this great

  world.


  Portia - first line, echoes Antonio, juxtaposition
• O me, the word ‘choose’! I may neither choose who I

  would, nor refuse who I dislike


  Portia - exclamatory sentence, status of women in Venice context, prose
• the will of a living daughter

  curbed by the will of a dead father.


  Portia - antanaclasis, repetition, juxtaposition
• Yes, yes, it was Bassanio! - as I think so was he called.


  Portia - repetition, exclamatory sentence, comedy as she pretends not to know
• If he have

  the condition of a saint, and the complexion of a devil, I had rather

  he should shrive me than wive me.


  Portia - juxtapostion, rhyme, prejudice, prose