Read the extract and answer the question Tell me, heavenly bow, If Venus or her son, as thou dost know, Do now attend the queen? Since they did plot The mea...

Assessment: WAEC SSCE - Literature In English - 2011 (Objective) Subject: Literature In English

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Read the extract and answer the question

Tell me, heavenly bow,
If Venus or her son, as thou dost know,
Do now attend the queen? Since they did plot
The means that dusky Dis my daughter got,
Her and her blind boy's scandalled company
I have forsworn.
(Act IV, scene one lines 86-91)

The character addressed is
Answer Details
The character addressed in the given extract is "Iris". In this extract, the speaker is Prospero who is asking the rainbow, personified as the "heavenly bow," whether Venus or Cupid (her son) is attending the queen's court. Prospero is a character in William Shakespeare's play "The Tempest".

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