Which of the following lines that Shylock speaks in Act 2: Scene 5 is the BEST

example of personification?

But stop my house's ears, I mean my casements: / Let not the sound of

shallow foppery enter / my sober house.

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

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

There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest,

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Isabella Dyer

5 December, 20:58

Which of the following lines that Shylock speaks in Act 2: Scene 5 is the BEST

example of personification?

But stop my house's ears, I mean my casements: / Let not the sound of

shallow foppery enter / my sober house.

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

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

There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest,

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Bryan · Answer 1

"But stop my house's ears, I mean my casements"

Explanation:

Personification is defined as giving an unliving thing living characteristics. By claiming that the house has ears would be personification.