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Lauren_Brazell
04-26-2011, 07:01 PM
I need help finding the poetic devices in this Shakespearean monologue:

Merchant of Venice
Act 3, Scene 2

PORTIA
I pray you, tarry. Pause a day or two
Before you hazard, for in choosing wrong
I lose your company. Therefore forbear awhile.
There’s something tells me—but it is not love—
I would not lose you, and you know yourself
Hate counsels not in such a quality.
But lest you should not understand me well—
And yet a maiden hath no tongue but thought—
I would detain you here some month or two
Before you venture for me. I could teach you
How to choose right, but I am then forsworn.
So will I never be. So may you miss me.
But if you do, you’ll make me wish a sin,
That I had been forsworn. Beshrew your eyes,
They have o'erlooked me and divided me.
One half of me is yours, the other half yours—
Mine own, I would say. But if mine, then yours,
And so all yours. Oh, these naughty times
Put bars between the owners and their rights!
And so, though yours, not yours. Prove it so.
Let Fortune go to hell for it, not I.
I speak too long, but ’tis to peize the time,
To eke it and to draw it out in length,
To stay you from election.

MorpheusSandman
04-27-2011, 05:28 AM
As most posters on here warn new posters, we're not going to simply help you with your homework. There are plenty of books and websites out there that discuss poetic and literary devices, and if you take the time to read them and apply them to that Merchant of Venice section then you'll get a good grade AND learn something. Here's one such list. (http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/)

Lauren_Brazell
04-27-2011, 11:09 AM
I've already found a few literary devices. I have a list from my professor of the poetic devices he wants us to use and the definition of the different kind. I am just not very good at finding them so that's why I was asking for help. I'm really bad at the artistic side of English. So it's not like I was trying to have other people do my homework for me. I've already done as much as I can on my own, I just need a little outside help. :)

Lauren_Brazell
04-27-2011, 11:15 AM
Here's the one's I've already found, just so you don't think I'm trying to have other people do my homework for me:

"I pray you, tarry. Pause a day or two"--Alliteration (pray, pause); Assonance (pray, tarry, day)

"Before you hazard, for in choosing wrong"--Symbols—she is referring to the caskets he must choose. The caskets are symbols for the cultural and legal system of Venice

"I would detain you here some month or two
Before you venture for me. I could teach you"--rhyme

"They have o'erlooked me and divided me."--Personification

"Oh, these naughty times
Put bars between the owners and their rights!"--Personification, the times they live in hinder them from being together because there are so many rules.

"Let Fortune go to hell for it, not I."--allegory

Can you please help me find others?