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What does this excerpt from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night reveal about Duke
Orsino?
DUKE: If music be the food of love, play on,Give me excess of it; that,
surfeiting,The appetite may sicken and so die.—That strain again;—it had a dying
fall;O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south,That breathes upon a bank of
violets,Stealing and giving odour.—Enough; no more;'Tis not so sweet now as it
was before.
A. He has developed a dislike for music.
B. He is in love with the idea of love itself.
C. He has lost his appetite for food.
D. He wants sweet flowers in his court. - CORRECT ANSWER-B. He is in love
with the idea of love itself.
Which literary device is apparent in the bolded lines of Viola's speech to the
captain in act II, scene IV, of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night?
, VIOLA: Too well what love women to men may owe:In faith, they are as true of
heart as we.My father had a daughter loved a man,As it might be, perhaps, were I
a woman,I should your lordship.
A. farce
B. puns
C. dramatic irony
D. satire - CORRECT ANSWER-C. dramatic irony
What inference can be drawn from these lines of Feste's song in Shakespeare's
Twelfth Night?
CLOWN: What is love? 'tis not hereafter;Present mirth hath present
laughter;What's to come is still unsure.In delay there lies no plenty;Then come
kiss me, sweet and twenty;Youth's a stuff will not endure.
A. These lines emphasize the importance of happiness and laughter.
B. These lines bring out Feste's disillusionment with the idea of romantic love.
C. These lines talk about life's unpredictability and urge people to enjoy their
youth.
D. These lines define the idea of platonic love. - CORRECT ANSWER-C. These
lines talk about life's unpredictability and urge people to enjoy their youth.