Transcript A Midsummer Night`s Dream Review

Test Review
 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.
 You
are responsible for all 20 vocabulary
words
 Please
note that fawn was INCORRECT on the
handout!
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Fawn -1.to seek notice or favor by servile
demeanor
Ex. The courtiers fawned over the king.
2.(of a dog) to behave affectionately.
 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
 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.
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-inidleness 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” (3.2.174175).
What is this?
What’s
the difference
between verse and prose?
Verse-poetic language
Prose – any writing that is
not in verse