| Act 1 Scene 1 – Feminine Line | I hate him for he is a Christian |
| Act 1 Scene 3 – Anaphora | I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, and so following, I will not eat with you. |
| Act 1 Scene 3 – Personal Pronouns | He hates our sacred nation |
| Act 1 Scene 3 – Religious | An evil soul producing holy witness… The devil can cite scripture for his purpose. |
| Act 1 Scene 3 – Sibilance | You spit upon my Jewish gaberdine |
| Act 2 Scene 3 – Alliteration | Our house is hell. |
| Act 2 Scene 3 – Anaphora/Religion | Most beautiful pagan, most sweet Jew, if a Christian do not play the knave and get thee I am much deceived. |
| Act 2 Scene 3 – Exclamation/Short Sentence | To be ashamed to be my father’s child! |
| Act 2 Scene 8 – Anaphora/Truncated Sentences | My daughter! O my ducats! O my daughter! Fled with a Christian! O my Christian Ducats! Justice! |
| Act 3 Scene 1 – Rhetorical Question | If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? |
| Act 3 Scene 1 – Rhetorical Question/Truncated Sentence | If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? Why revenge! |
| Act 4 Scene 1 – Truncated Sentence/Alliteration | So I can give no reason, nor will I not, more than a lodged hate and a certain loathing. |
| Act 4 Scene 1 – ‘c’ sound | He presently become a Christian |
English – Merchant of Venice Quotes. Religion/Prejudice/Hate
July 30, 2019