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WAEC SSCE - Literature In English - 2000 (Objective)

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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Twelfth Night
Read the extract below and answer the question

So please my lord, I might not be admitted;
But from her handmaid to return this answer:
The element itself, till seven years heat,
Shall not behold her face at ample view......
(Act 1 Scene 1)

The message is in connection with
Answer Details
The message in the given extract is in connection with love. Viola, the speaker of these lines, has fallen in love with Duke Orsino but is unable to express her feelings to him directly because she is disguised as a man. In this message, Viola tells the Duke's messenger that Olivia, the woman the Duke loves, will not be seeing any suitors for seven years.
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