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1
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What does ‘Orsino’ mean?

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Italian for bear cub suggesting his immaturity

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Example to show Orsino’s love for Olivia:

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‘Eyes did see Olivia first’

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Key quotation from Sebastian at the end of the play:

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‘Are all the people mad?’

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Orsino’s opening line of the play:

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‘If music be the food of love play on. Give me excess of it’

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What theme does the quotation ‘he’s drunk nightly in your company’ represent?

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Carnivalesque, excess

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Who says this to who: ‘that quaffing and drinking will undo you’?

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Maria says it to Sir Toby

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What word does Sir Andrew get very confused over when meeting Maria?

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‘accost’

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What does Sir Andrew ‘Aguecheek’ ‘s name suggest?

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What do Sir Toby ‘Belch’ ‘s name suggest?

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Belch

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What quotation shows the instability of Viola and Orsino’s love?

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She’s his favourite after ‘three days’

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Example of Orsino’s open character:

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‘I have unclasped to thee the book even of my secret soul’

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Example of Orsino being moody:

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‘I myself am best when least in company’

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Cesario describes his speech of love to Olivia as being…

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‘Excellently well penned’

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What does Cesario say to Olivia about her flaws?

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‘I see you what you are, you are too proud but if you were the devil, you are fair’

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What does Cesario say about his disguise in Act 1 Scene 5?

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‘I am not that I play’

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What quotation describes Viola’s plan when she lands on Illyria?

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‘Conceal me what I am, and be my aid for such disguise as haply shall become the form of my intent’

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The quotation Viola says expressing her love for Orsino:

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‘Whoe’er I woo, myself would be his wife’

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18
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That quotation which makes Olivia fall in love with Cesario: is

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‘Make me a willow cabin at your gate’ - used “me”!!!!

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19
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Who says this to who: ‘thine eye hath stayed upon some favour that it loves’ ?

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Orsino to Viola

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What truth does Viola tell in Act 2 Scene 4?

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‘My father had a daughter loved a man’

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21
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What does the letter tell Malvolio to do?

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‘Yellow stockings’ and ‘cross-gartered’

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22
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The quotation Malvoli says that makes him pervy:

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‘And perchance wind up my watch, or play with my - some rich jewel’

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23
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Who says this: ‘I do not now fool myself, to let imagination jade me; for every reason excites to this, that my lady loves me.’ ?

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Malvolio

24
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Finish this quotation by Antonio: ‘if you will not murder me for my love, …’

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…’let me be your servant.’

25
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Key quotation from Viola’s soliloquy:

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‘Disguise, I see, thou art wickedness’ - apostrophises the disguise

26
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A quotation to show Puritan vs carnivalesque:

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‘My masters, are you mad?’

27
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A quotation to show Toby taking money from Sir Andrew:

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‘I have been dear to him, some two thousand strong or so’

28
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Quotation to show Viola’s storge love:

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‘O, my poor brother!’

29
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What does olivia describe Malvolio as in Act 3 Scene 4?

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‘Sad and civil’

30
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Key quotation showing Viola crossing over between Viola as a character and actor:

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‘I am not that I play’

31
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Who does Feste dress up as in Act 4 Scene 2?

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‘Sir Topas the curate’

32
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What does Viola say in her soliloquy that shows her awareness of Olivia as a woman?

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‘She did speak in starts distractedly’

33
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Example of a paradox in a quotation:

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‘Than love that would seem his: love’s night is noon’

34
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An example of an oxymoron in a quotation:

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‘Sweet pangs’

35
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Finish this: ‘an apple cleft in two is…’

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…’not more twin than these two creatures’

36
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How does Cesario describe Feste in Act 3 Scene 1?

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‘This fellow is wise enough to play the fool, and to do that well craves a kind of wit.’

37
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A metaphor for language being malleable:

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‘A sentence is but a cheveril glove’

38
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What does Feste say to expose Orsino?

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‘For thy mind is a very opal’

39
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A quotation to prove that Antonio is gay:

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‘Let me be your servant’

40
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How does Sebastian refer to Antonio?

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‘My dear Antonio’

41
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What goes around comes around

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‘And thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges’

42
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A quotation to show Malvolio as a victim of cruelty:

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‘I have been notoriously abused’

43
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A quotation showing Sir Andrew’s love

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‘I was adored once too’

44
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What theme does this quotation show: ‘love sought is good, but given unsought is better’?

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desire and love

45
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A quotation showing philautia (self-love)

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Olivia to Malvolio - ‘you are sick of self-love’

46
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who said this: ‘make me a willow cabin at your gate’?

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cesario to olivia

47
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who said this and where: ‘thy small pipe is as the maiden’s organ, shrill and sound’

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Orsino, Act 1 scene 4

48
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what theme does this quotation show: ‘give me thy hand and let me see thee in thy women’s weeds’

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gender

49
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quotation from Sir Andrew showing the theme of carnivalesque

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‘I would I had bestowed that time in the tongues, that I have in fencing, dancing, and bear baiting.’ (act 1 scene 3)

50
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who said this and where? ‘why, this is very midsummer madness’

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olivia, act 3 scene 4

51
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who said that is and where? ‘if this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction’

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fabian, act 3 scene 4

52
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who said this and where? ‘I am all the daughters of my father’s house and all the brothers too’

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Viola, act 2 scene 4

53
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Viola realising that Cesario is based on Sebastian

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‘for him I imitate’

54
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finish this: ‘conceal me what I am, and be my aid for…’

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‘… such disguise as haply shall become the form of my intent’

55
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who says this and where? ‘there’s something in’t that is decievable’

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sebastian, act 4 scene 3

56
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quotation to show Malvolio’s wish for upward social mobility

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‘some rich jewel’ and ‘branched velvet gown’

57
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‘cucullus non facit monachum’

A

Latin
Basically saying that outward appearances are not all within

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