Question

select the correct answer from each drop - down menu.
below are two excerpts from shakespeares the twelfth night. read each closely and complete the sentences that follow by selecting the correct answer from the drop - down.
excerpt 1:
curio: will you go hunt, my lord?
duke (orsino): what, curio?
curio: the hart.
duke: why, so i do, the noblest that i have.
o, when mine eyes did see olivia first,
methought she purgd the air of pestilence,
that instant was i turnd into a hart;
and my desires, like fell and cruel hounds,
eer since pursue me.—how now! what news from her?
excerpt 2:
olivia: cesario, by the roses of the spring,
by maidhood, honour, truth, and everything,
i love thee so that, maugre all thy pride,
nor wit, nor reason, can my passion hide.
do not extort thy reasons from this clause,
for, that i woo, thou therefore hast no cause:
but rather reason thus with reason fetter:
love sought is good, but given unsought is better
excerpt 1 is an example of dropdown excerpt 2 is an example of dropdown

Explanation:

Excerpt 1 uses an extended metaphor where Duke Orsino compares himself to a hart (stag) hunted by his own desires for Olivia, which is a soliloquy-like reflective speech that fits a dramatic monologue. Excerpt 2 is Olivia directly declaring her love to Cesario, which is an example of an apostrophe (direct address to another character) and more specifically a dramatic declaration, but more accurately, it is an example of a love soliloquy/declaration, but the key categorization is: Excerpt 1 is a dramatic monologue (extended metaphor) where the speaker reflects on his own state, and Excerpt 2 is a direct love declaration (apostrophe/dramatic speech). More precisely, in literary terms:

• Excerpt 1 is an example of an extended metaphor (conceit) within a dramatic monologue, as Orsino extends the hart/hounds metaphor to describe his unrequited love.
• Excerpt 2 is an example of a direct love confession (dramatic speech) where Olivia openly declares her feelings to Cesario.

Answer:

Excerpt 1 is an example of extended metaphor (dramatic monologue)
Excerpt 2 is an example of direct love confession (dramatic declaration)