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WAEC SSCE - Literature In English - 1998 (Objective)

Question 1 Report

Read the extract below and answer the question:

A : Let all the rest give place
(Exeunt Curio and attendants),
Once more, Cesario,
Get thee to yond same sovereign cruelty;
Tell her, my love, more noble than the world,
Prizes, not quantity of dirty land,
The parts that forune hath bestowed upon her,
Tell her, I hold as giddily as fortune,
But 'tis that miracles and queen of gems
that nature pranks her in, attracts my soul.
(Act ll Scene IV)

Speaker A is
Answer Details
Speaker A in the extract is the Duke. The Duke is instructing Cesario (who is actually Viola in disguise) to go and tell Olivia, a woman he is in love with, that he is not interested in her wealth or the land she possesses, but rather her own noble character and the unique beauty that nature has given her.
Read lesson note on General Literary Principles (JAMB)
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