Act 2 Scene 8

• I never heard a passion so confused, So strange, outrageous, and so variable


  Solanio - listing
• ‘My daughter! Oh my Ducats! Oh my daughter!

  Fled with a Christian! Oh my Christian ducats!’


  Solanio -reported speech, imitaton, exaggerated, stereotype of greedy Jews
• Crying his stones, his daughter, and his ducats.


  Salarino - rule of three, repetition
• Let good Antonio look he keep his day, Or he shall pay for this.


  Solanio - foreshadowing, contrast to ‘villain Jew‘
• A kinder gentleman treads not the earth.


  Salarino – hyperbole
• I think he only loves the world for him


  Solanio - Antonio about Bassanio, hyperbole