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  1. www.gradesaver.com › twelfth-night › study-guideTwelfth Night Metaphors and Similes | GradeSaver

    (3.1). In this metaphor, Feste compares words to a glove in the hands of a wordsmith (or a playwright, like Shakespeare). He suggests that those who are good with words are able to twist and manipulate language for their own ends. Secret Love and Worms.

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  2. www.litcharts.com › lit › twelfth-nightTwelfth Night Literary Devices | LitCharts

    Characters in Twelfth Night frequently use metaphorical language to talk about love and desire. One especially evocative metaphor that appears more than once throughout the play likens the human heart to a book and the act of loving to the act of reading. In Act 1, Scene 4, Orsino compares his soul to a locked book:

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  4. www.owleyes.org › text › twelfth-nightMetaphor in Twelfth Night - Owl Eyes

    Feste uses metaphors to get a third coin out of Orsino. “Play” is a reference to a child’s game in which players call out “one, two, three.” “Third plays for all” means third time’s a charm, and “triplex” is a musical beat played in triple time.

  5. www.sparknotes.com › shakespeare › twelfthnightTwelfth Night: Full Play Summary | SparkNotes

    Twelfth Night Full Play Summary. In the kingdom of Illyria, a nobleman named Orsino lies around listening to music, pining away for the love of Lady Olivia. He cannot have her because she is in mourning for her dead brother and refuses to entertain any proposals of marriage.

  6. www.sparknotes.com › shakespeare › twelfthnightTwelfth Night: Full Play Analysis | SparkNotes

    Twelfth Night is a play about desire’s power to override conventions of class, religion, and even gender. Several characters begin the play believing they want one thing, only to have love teach them they actually want something else. Orsino thinks he wants Olivia, until he falls in love with Viola (dressed as Cesario.)

  7. www.sparknotes.com › shakespeare › twelfthnightTwelfth Night Act I: Scenes i & ii Summary & Analysis ...

    The opening lines of Twelfth Night, in which a moping Orsino, attended by his servants and musicians, says, “If music be the food of love, play on,” establish how love has conquered Orsino (I.i. 1 ). His speech on this subject is rather complicated, as he employs a metaphor to try to establish some control over love.

  8. www.litcharts.com › twelfth-night › act-1-scene-5Twelfth Night Act 1, Scene 5 Translation - LitCharts

    Actually understand Twelfth Night Act 1, Scene 5. Read every line of Shakespeare’s original text alongside a modern English translation.