👋🏽 Hi, I’m Kerry. I teach CSEC English B at Arc School: live classes each week, lesson resources, exam practice and personalised coaching for the May–June 2027 exams. In this lesson, learn the quotes from the play word for word. Just don’t copy my explanations into your essay. Explain the quotes in your own words.
The Twelfth Night essay questions from June 2023 and June 2024 end the same way. You must “examine how Shakespeare uses ONE dramatic technique”.
Knowing the names of techniques won’t get you through that part. For each one, you need a clear example from the play, like a short quote or an exact moment on stage, and something to say about what it does to the audience.
Here are 10 dramatic techniques from Twelfth Night, each with the line that shows it.
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to:
say what each technique means in plain words
point to a line in the play that shows it
explain what it does to the audience
choose the one that fits the question in front of you
In the full lesson, you get all 10, grouped by what they do. For each one, there’s a sentence you could use in your essay. At the end, I tell you which ones to learn first.
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Have the question beside you. We’ll start with dramatic irony.