A Midsummer Night’s Dream

A Midsummer Night’s Dream Test Review

Review the Text • Reread the acts that confused you. • Go to sparknotes.com and read the modern version along side the original text. • Watch the review videos that we watched in class! They are on my website in the homework log.

Vocabulary • You are responsible for all 20 vocabulary words • Please note that fawn was INCORRECT on the handout! • Fawn -1.to seek notice or favor by servile demeanor • Ex. The courtiers fawned over the king. • 2.(of a dog) to behave affectionately.

Let’s see if we know our words! • revel – Puck: “The king doth keep his revels here tonight” (2.1.18) • To take great pleasure or delight; to make merry • wrath – Puck: “For Oberon is passing fell and wrath/ Because that she, as her attendant, hath/A lovely boy stolen from an Indian king;” (2.1.20). • Strong, stern, or fierce anger

-tedious – Lysander: “Content with Hermia? No, I do repent/ The tedious minutes I with her have spent” (2.2.118-119). • Long and tiresome; wordy so as to cause boredom • -beguile – Puck says, “I jest to Oberon and make him smile/When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile,/Neighing in likeness of a filly foal” (2.1.47). • To influence trickery, flattery; mislead

Terminology • Helena: “I am your spaniel, and, Demetrius,/The more you beat me I will fawn on you” (2.1.210-211). • Metaphor – a comparison of two things that are basically unlike but have some qualities in common. Unlike a simile, a metaphor does not contain the word like or as.

What is Puck’s real name? • Why is that ironic? • What type of irony is it? • Verbal Irony – exists when someone knowingly exaggerates (hyperbole) or says one thing and means another (sarcasm) or there is a play on words (puns)

Puck mistakes Lysander for Demetrius and puts love-in-idleness on the wrong Athenian’s eyes. • Explain this situation and the irony. • What type of irony does this situation represent?

Bottom: “And yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays” (3.1.145-146). • What does this mean? • Love doesn’t always make complete sense. • Why is it significant? • What term does this represent well?

Robin:“Cupid is a knavish lad/Thus to make poor females mad” (3.2.469-470). • Allusion – a reference to a famous person, place, event, or work of literature (allusion to mythology are very common in Shakespeare’s work) • Why do authors make allusions?

Theseus: “This old moon wanes. She lingers my desires / like to a stepdame or dowager” (1.1.3-5). • Personification – the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea

“We, Hermia, like two artificial gods,/ Have with our needles created both one flower (…)” (3.2.208-209). • Simile – a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things using the word like or as

“My heart to her but as guest-wise sojourned,/ And now to Helen is it home returned” (3.2.174-175). • What is this?

What’s the difference between verse and prose? • Verse-poetic language • Prose – any writing that is not in verse

A Midsummer Night’s Dream