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,

Read the excerpt from the poem "growing up italian" by maria mazziotti gillan and answer the question that follows. when i was a little girl, i thought everyone was italian, and that was good. we visted our aunts and uncles, and they visted us. the italian language smooth and sweet in my mouth. in kindergarten, english words fell on me, thick and sharp as hail. i grew silent, the italian word balanced on the edge of my tongue and the english word, lost during the first moment of every question. source: gillan, maria mazziotti. "growing up italian." poetrymagazine. com. poetry magazine, n. d. web. 30 mar. 2011. what is the tone of this poem? what does the tone reveal about the speaker of the poem and the conflict she faces? based on this excerpt, what can you predict about the theme of the poem?