Question

Which of the following lines that Shylock speaks in Act 2: Scene 5 is the BEST example of personification?( The Merchant of Venice.

A But stop my house's ears, I mean my casements:/ Let not the sound of shallow foppery enter/ my sober house.

B Fast bind, fast find, / A proverb never stale in thrifty mind.

C Snail-slow in profit, and he sleeps by day / More than the wild-cat:

D There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest,

Answer 1

I would say that the answer is A.

Answer 2

A .But stop my house's ears, I mean my casements:/ Let not the sound of shallow foppery enter/ my sober house.

Step-by-step explanation:

Personification is a figure of speech that gives a non-human entity (such as an animal, an element of nature, a thing or an emotion) human attributes like pondering, thinking, writing, talking. Shylock uses this figure of speech when he gives the house (an object, a non-human entity) ears as well as the ability to hear (a human attribute that things do not have).