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WorksheetsTwelfth Night
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 14mins
Who speaks the line 'O spirit of love! how quick and fresh art thou' ?
Olivia
Orsino
Viola
Malvolio
Do (a) make an (b) of my (c) house?
What's the missing word in this line from Malvolio? 'My lady _______ me tell you'
bade
asked
wished
implored
In what Act and Scene does this line from Olivia appear?
'Why, how dost thou, man? what is the matter with thee?'
Act 1 Scene 1
Act 1 Scene 5
Act 3 Scene 4
Act 4 Scene 2
Which quotes use a metaphor?
the man is tainted in's wits.
If music be the food of love; play on!
my desires, like fell and cruel hounds
Here comes the countess: now heaven walks on earth
I am as (a) as he,
If (b) and (c) madness (d) be. - Olivia, Act 3, Scene 4
Who speaks this line in Act 1 Scene 5?
'But, if you were the devil, you are fair.'
Orsino
Viola
Olivia
Malvolio
What devices are used in this line from Malvolio in Act 2 Scene 3 to exaggerate his disapproval?
Is there no respect of place, persons, nor
time in you?
Allteration
triplet
rhetorical question
Plosives
In Act 1 Scene 5, Viola says 'Write loyal cantons of contemned love'.
The adjective 'Contemed' is closest in meaning to...
rejected
beautiful
great
powerful
Which line best illustrates a character over-indulging in the idea of love?
Make me a willow cabin at your gate - Viola, 1.5
acting this in an obedient hope - Malvolio, 5.1
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die - Orsino, 1.1
mine is all as hungry as the sea,
And can digest as much - Orsino, 2.4
Match the following line to the character
Made the most notorious geck and gull - 5.1
Malvolio
Above my fortunes, yet my state is well:
I am a gentleman - 1.5
Viola
Can bide the beating of so strong a passion
As love doth give my heart - 2.4
Orsino
He is sad and civil,
And suits well for a servant with my fortunes - 3.4
Olivia
'...to gabble like
tinkers at this time of night?'
What devices are used in this line from Malvolio in Act 2 Scene 3?
zoomorphism
metaphor
simile
onomatopoeia
Who is being referred to in this line from Act 1 Scene 1?
like a cloistress, she will veiled walk
(a)
What does this line from Viola in Act 2 Scene 4 suggest about her love for Orsino?
But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud,
Feed on her damask cheek
She is suffering in silence with her deep, unrequited love for Orsino
She is trying to stop loving Orsino
She is outwardly declaring her love for Orsino
She is comparing her love to a small and insignificant being.
In Act 5 Scene 1 Olivia says 'Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge
Of thine own cause' to Malvolio. This tells us...
Malvolio should ignore what happened
Malvolio will take the others to a judge
Malvolio can't change the past
She will give Malvolio the opportunity to get justice.
Is this short monologue by Viola in Act 1, Scene 5 an example or prose or verse?
VIOLA
Make me a willow cabin at your gate,
And call upon my soul within the house;
Write loyal cantons of contemned love
And sing them loud even in the dead of night;
Halloo your name to the reverberate hills
And make the babbling gossip of the air
Cry out 'Olivia!' O, You should not rest
Between the elements of air and earth,
But you should pity me!
Prose
Verse
Match the following
Verse
Used for high emotion or drama
Prose
Used for comic moments
Malvolio
Speaks in both verse and prose
Orsino
Tends to speak only in verse
Sir Andrew
Speaks mostly in prose
