Act 3 scene 1

• lest the devil cross my prayer,

  for here he comes in the likeness of a Jew.


  Solanio - prejudice
• You knew, none so well, none so well as you


  Shylock - about Jessica‘s escape
• That’s certain; I for my part knew the tailor that made the

  wings she flew withal.


  Salarino- ruthless, caesura, metaphor, unapologetic, prose
• To bait fish withal; if it will feed nothing else, it will feed my

  revenge.


  Shylock - in response to why he needs Antonio’s flesh, prose, assonance, repetition, metaphor
• He hath disgraced me, and hindered me half a million, laughed at my losses


  Shylock - listing, alliteration
• and what’s his reason? I am a Jew.


  Shylock - hypophora, monosyllabic, prose
• Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions…?


  Shylock - rhetorical questions, listing, prose
• If you prick us, do

  we not bleed?


  Shylock - listing , rhetorical questions, prose
• Revenge.

  Why, revenge! 


  Shylock - hypophora, repetition
• Here comes another of the tribe; a third cannot be matched,

  unless the devil himself turn Jew


  Solanio - metaphor, hyperbole, prose
• I would my daughter

  were dead at my foot… would she were hearsed at my foot?


  Shylock - repetition, Elizabethan audience would compare Shylock‘s treatment of Jessica to Antonio’s treatment of friends
• I thank God, I thank God. Is it true, is it true?


  Shylock - repetition
• I am very glad of it. I’ll plague him, I’ll torture him. I am

  glad of it. 


  Shylock - listing, repetition, prose