In order to study for the exam, read through all your notes and write down notes for each of the study questions. In order to earn extra credit on the exam, write down thorough answers for all questions.
1. Define dramatic irony. Give at least three examples from the play. Explain how irony affects the play as a whole.
2. Define metaphor. Give at least one example from the play. Explain how metaphor contributes to the play.
3. Define pun. Give at least one example from the play.
4. Describe Feste the Clown’s role in the play. Reflect on his character and his function?
5. Describe Malvolio’s role in the play. What is his personality and what is his function?
6. Describe Sebastian’s role in the play. What is his personality and what is his function?
7. What is iambic pentameter? What are heroic couplets?
8. Define foil. List a few examples from the play. Explain one of the examples.
9. Define arete. Give an example from the play.
10. Define hubris. Give an example from the play. How is it important to the play as a whole
11. Define sophrosune. Give an example from the play.
12. List and explain several themes from the play (at least three).
13. Are things truly resolved at the end of the play? Explain your opinion.
14. How has Shakespeare modernized the romance genre through Twelfth Night (what is different compared to The Odyssey)?
15. Define paradox. How does paradox affect the meaning of the play as a whole?
16. Analyze the relationship between Viola, Sebastian, and Cesario. What does Shakespeare suggest through these three characters?
17. Who is the hero of this play? Explain.
18. What does the title of the play mean? "Twelfth Night" is a reference to the twelfth nightafter Christmas Day, called the Eve of the Feast of Epiphany. It was originally a Catholic holiday and therefore, like other Christian feast days, an occasion for revelry. Servants often dressed up as theirmasters, men as women and so forth.