There are a lot of really good speeches in Shakespeare, and here’s a link to a website which divides them up by character gender (Men/Women) and by type of play “tragedy/history/comedy.”

http://www.shakespeare-monologues.org/

Since your teacher said “20-25 lines” you should pick a speech in verse. (Verse is Shakespeare writing in poetry, with specific rules about the number of feet per line, and prose is just normal sentence writing, like in a paragraph.) I’d start by looking into Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar or A Midsummer Night’s Dream, if you can pick from any play at all. It’s easier to memorize what you understand and like, so read a couple different speeches until you find one that you understand and that seems interesting.

Good Luck!

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Polonius’ advice to his son in Hamlet (ending “to thine own self be true”) is relatively easy to memorize.