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Read the extract below and answer the question:
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Twelfth Night

A : What country, friends, is this?
B : This is lllyria, Lady,
A : And what should I do in lllyria?
My brother he is in Elysium.
Perchance he is not drowned - What think you, sailors?
B : It is perchance that you yourself where saved
A : O my poor brother. and so perchance may he be
(Act 1 Scene II)
Speaker B is

  • A. Sir Toby
  • B. Sir Andrew
  • C. Captain
  • D. Olivia
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Read the extract below and answer the question:
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Twelfth Night

A : What country, friends, is this?
B : This is lllyria, Lady,
A : And what should I do in lllyria?
My brother he is in Elysium.
Perchance he is not drowned - What think you, sailors?
B : It is perchance that you yourself where saved
A : O my poor brother. and so perchance may he be
(Act 1 Scene II)

Speaker B is worried about lllyria because the lady

  • A. is new to lllyria
  • B. is not familiar with the language
  • C. does not understand the government
  • D. is afraid of the people
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Read the extract below and answer the question:
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Twelfth Night

A : What country, friends, is this?
B : This is lllyria, Lady,
A : And what should I do in lllyria?
My brother he is in Elysium.
Perchance he is not drowned - What think you, sailors?
B : It is perchance that you yourself where saved
A : O my poor brother. and so perchance may he be
(Act 1 Scene II)

Why is speaker A afraid the brother might be drowned? It is because

  • A. the crew was unfaithful
  • B. the ship captain threw him overboard
  • C. they fought with pirates
  • D. they were shipwrecked
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Read the extract below and answer the question:
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Twelfth Night

A : What country, friends, is this?
B : This is lllyria, Lady,
A : And what should I do in lllyria?
My brother he is in Elysium.
Perchance he is not drowned - What think you, sailors?
B : It is perchance that you yourself where saved
A : O my poor brother. and so perchance may he be
(Act 1 Scene II)

The figure of speech underlined in the extract is known as

  • A. apostrophe
  • B. alliteration
  • C. assonance
  • D. personification
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Twelfth Night
Read the extract below and answer the question

I have said too much unto a heart of stone,
And laid my honour too unchary on 't;
There's something in me that reproves my fault,
But such a headstrong potent fault it is
That it but mocks reproof.
(Acts iii, Scene 4)

The figure of speech used in '' a heart of stone'' is

  • A. hyperbole
  • B. metonymy
  • C. paradox
  • D. metaphor
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