Reading Skills Worksheet
Twelfth Night Summarize Storylines
Summarizing a text can help you better understand the plot and characters and provide insight into a
text’s major themes. Complete the chart as follows to help you summarize the play:
In column 1: Read the characters involved in a particular storyline found in Twelfth Night.
In column 2: Write complete sentences telling the key events that happen among the characters as the
play proceeds. Be sure to cite the acts and scenes in which this information is revealed.
Column 3: Summarize the events of each storyline in a statement.
On a separate sheet of paper, write a paragraph that summarizes the plot of Twelfth Night.
Storyline
Events
Viola/Olivia/Orsino
Orsino is in love with Olivia, but
she is in mourning and will not see
anyone. (No Fear: 1.1)
Summary Statement
Viola, disguised as Cesario, is
asked by Orsino to be a messenger
of his love to Olivia. (No Fear:
1.4)
Olivia tells Viola she will not love
Orsino, but she begins to have
feelings toward Viola as Cesario.
(No Fear: 1.5)
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Maria/Sir Toby/Sir
Andrew/Malvolio
Sebastian/Antonio/Olivia
RL.11-12.2 Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including
how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text.
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