WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Merchant of Venice

Read the extract below and answer the question

Not in love neither? Then let us say you are sad
Because you are not merry; and 'twere as easy
for you to laugh and leap, and say you are merry
Because you are not sad.
(Act 1 sc 1)

The underlined expression illustrates

• A.assonance
• B.synecdoche
• C.alliteration
• D.irony