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Techniques in 'Merchant of Venice'
Techniques in 'Merchant of Venice'
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Which technique engages the five senses of the reader?
Allusion
Descriptive Language/Imagery
Characterisation
Simile
2
Which technique involves a character doing/saying something?
Irony
Characterisation
Metaphor
Simile
3
"If I live to be as old as Sibylla, I will die as chaste as Diana"
Allusion
Irony
Characterisation
Hyperbole
4
Portia and Nerissa dress as men, without their husband's knowledge.
Simile
Characterisation
Allusion
Irony
5
Which technique involves the audience knowing something that the character doesn't?
Allusion
Metaphor
Simile
Irony
6
"How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!"
Metaphor
Personification
7
Which technique compares two things using
like
or
as
?
Allusion
Metaphor
Simile
Irony
8
"I pray you, think you question with the Jew...You may as well use question with the wolf"
Symbolism
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Simile
9
Which technique says something that isn't literally true?
Allusion
Simile
Metaphor
Irony
10
"An evil soul producing holy witness is like a villain with a smiling cheek"
Allusion
Irony
Metaphor
Simile
11
Which technique involves exaggeration?
Descriptive Language/Imagery
Irony
Hyperbole
Simile
12
"I'll have my bond; I will not hear thee speak: I'll have my bond"
Repetition
Metaphor
13
What is characterisation?
Anything a character says or does.
Anything a character says, does, or wears.
Anything that gives us information about a character.
Anything a character says.
14
Which technique involves a non-human thing being given human characteristics?
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Characterisation
15
"Stop my house's ears" (Shylock's warning to Jessica)
Imagery
Personification
Characterisation
Irony
16
Which technique uses an object to represent something?
Irony
Metaphor
Characterisation
Symbolism
17
Which technique references something famous?
Irony
Metaphor
Allusion
Simile
18
NAME THE TECHNIQUE: "Why, that's the lady; all the world desires her"
Simile
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Characterisation
19
NAME THE TECHNIQUE: The gold, silver, and lead chests.
Metaphor
Irony
Symbolism
Simile
20
"... Never so rich a gem was set in worse than gold..."
Symbolism
Simile
Characterisation
Metaphor