Key Quotations (OCR A-Level English Literature): Flashcards
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Soliloquy
Soliloquy
Speech alone on stage revealing inner thoughts
Dramatic irony
Dramatic irony
Audience knows what characters don't
Personification
Personification
Giving human qualities to non-human things
Orsino's trait in Act 1 Scene 1
Orsino's trait in Act 1 Scene 1
Fickle desire; doesn't know his own mind
Marriages at end of Twelfth Night
Marriages at end of Twelfth Night
Three
Olivia's mourning period length
Olivia's mourning period length
Seven years
Midsummer madness refers to
Midsummer madness refers to
Festival madness or madness of love
Dissemble
Dissemble
To disguise one's true motives/feelings; pretend
Viola: 'I am not what I am' means
Viola: 'I am not what I am' means
She's not the man she appears to be
Gender concept in play
Gender concept in play
Gender is societal not biological; exists on spectrum