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Which description is the best interpretation of Viola’s lines from act II, scene IV, of Twelfth Night?

DUKE: But died thy sister of her love, my boy?
VIOLA: I am all the daughters of my father's house,
And all the brothers too[.]

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Answer: C

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Plato

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Viola, at this point in the plot, is still under the belief that her only brother Sebastian has died of drowning during their shipwreck. She is still in disguise as a young man and her reply is a figurative and adorned way to say that he/she is the only surviving scion of his/her family.

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