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Characters
Dramatic Devices
Act 1 Quotes
Act 2 Quotes
Context
100
This character promised to abide by her father's will.
Who is Portia?
100
This device occurs whenever the theme of "appearance vs. reality" is invoked.
What is irony?
100
You look not well, Signor Antonio. / You have too much respect upon the world. / They lose it that do buy it with much care.
Who is Gratiano? (trying to figure out why Antonio is sad).
100
All that glisters is not gold; / Often have you heard that told: / Many a man his life hath sold / But my outside to behold: / Gilded tombs do worms infold.
What is the scroll in the Gold Chest, after being opened by the Prince of Morocco?
100
This was the status of Jews in England during Shakespeare's time.
What is illegal?
200
This character deceived her father and stole from him.
Who is Jessica?
200
This device occurs when Shylock gives Jessica the keys to his house and says, "lock up my doors."
What is dramatic irony?
200
If he have the condition of a saint and the complexion of a devil, I had rather he should shrive me than wive me.
Who is Portia? (when discussing the Prince of Morocco before he arrives)
200
Alack, what heinous sin is it in me / To be asham'd to be my father's child! / But though I am daugther to his blood, / I am not to his manners.
Who is Jessica? (after Launcelot quits Shylock's service and she reveals she is running away)
200
This is the status of women in the context of the play.
What is similar to that of property?
300
This character has a dream warning him not to go to dinner.
Who is Shylock?
300
This device is used to help the audience understand when a character is being duplicitous; a window into their thoughts that only certain people can hear.
What is an aside?
300
How like a fawning publican he looks! / I hate him for he is a Christian, / But more for that in low simplicity / He lends out money gratis and brings down / the rate of usance here with us in Venice.
Who is Shylock? (in his aside before making the deal with Antonio)
300
If e'er the Jew her father come to heaven, / It will be for his gentle daughter's sake; / And never dare misfortune cross her foot, / Unless she do it under his excuse, / That she is issue to a faithless Jew.
Who is Lorenzo? (describing how much he loves Shylock's daughter despite Shylock)
300
This is the term to describe a racial prejudice towards Jewish people.
What is anti-semitism?
400
This character ran away with Jessica, but didn't hide on Bassanio's ships.
Who is Lorenzo?
400
This device is used to explore a character's thoughts or inner conflicts, and can be identified by the character's presence alone on stage.
What is a soliloquy?
400
Mark you this, Bassanio, / The devil can cite Scripture for his purposes. / An evil soul producing holy witness / Is like a villain with a smiling cheek. / A goodly apple rotten at the heart. / Oh, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
Who is Antonio? (Speaking to Bassanio after Shylock justifies charging interest by citing the Bible)
400
I will not choose what many men desire / Because I will not jump with common spirits / And rank me with the barbarous multitudes.
Who is the Prince of Arragon? (When deciding on the casket to choose and rejecting the gold casket)
400
This is the "crime" that Shylock commits, that Christians were not allowed to commit.
What is usury?
500
This foul-mouthed character promised to be on his best behavior if he was taken to Belmont.
Who is Gratiano?
500
The playwright has set up this device to occur between the Princes Morocco and Arragon and the main character, Bassanio.
What is a foil?
500
And if it stand, as you yourself still do, / Within the eye of honour, be assured / My purse, my person, my extremest means / Lie all unlocked to your occasions.
Who is Antonio? (promising he will lend the money to Bassanio before hearing of his plan with Portia).
500
My daughter! O my ducats! O my daughter, / Fled with a Christian! O my Christian ducats! /Justice, the law, my ducats, and my daughter!
Who is Solanio? (imitating Shylock after discovering that his daughter fled with a Christian)