Act 5 scene 1

• 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