Cards (11)

  • When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees
    Lorenzo – romantic language, personification
  • In such a night
    Medea gathered the enchanted herbs
    That did renew old Aeson
    Jessica – classical literature context
  • In such a night
    Lorenzo x4, Jessica x3 (repetition)
  • (like a little shrew)

    Lorenzo – simile for Jessica
  • How sweet the moonlight sleeps
    Lorenzo – sibilance, personification, romantic language, pathetic fallacy
  • let the sounds of music
    Creep in our ears
    Lorenzo – personification
  • I am never merry when I hear sweet music.

    Jessica
  • The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark
    When neither is attended
    Portia - simile, cynical view
  • To whom I am so infinitely bound

    Bassanio - hyperbole for Antonio
  • the ring
    Bassanio and Portia - repetition for comedy
  • while I live, I’ll fear no other thing
    So sore as keeping safe Nerissa’s ring.
    Gratiano - ending line, salacious, sexual pun, rhyming couplets