A Midsummer Night’s Dream Act I
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Match the speaker to the line:

1. Hermia a. "...yield thy crazed title to my certain right."

2. Theseus b. "...there we will rehearse most obscenely..."

3. Nick Bottom c. "I am that merry wanderer of the night."

4. Oberon d. "My tongue should catch your tongue’s sweet melody."

5. Titania e. "I would my father looked but with my eyes."

6. Peter Quince f. "Weaving spiders come not here..."

7. Hippolyta g. "Four days will quickly steep themselves in night;"

8. Lysander h. "I beg the ancient privilege of Athens:"

9. Helena i. "I have a maiden aunt, a dowager of great revenue..."

10. Egeus j. "Is all our company here?"

11. Puck k. "What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?"

12. Demetrius l. "I’ll to my queen, and beg her Indian boy;"

13. First Fairy m."...our nuptial hour draws on apace"

Put the characters above into the following groups:

14. The Lovers: __________________________________________________________

15. The Court: ___________________________________________________________

16. The Mechanicals: ______________________________________________________

17. Fairyland: ____________________________________________________________

Match the characters to the type of dialogue they are likely to speak:

18. The Lovers a. blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter)

19. The Court b. song, blank verse, and rhymed verse

20. The Mechanicals c. heroic couplets and blank verse

21. Fairyland d. prose and doggerel

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MSND, ACT I QUIZ DO NOT WRITE ON THIS PAPER

Sc. i

1. As the play begins, is the moon waning or waxing?

2. Who is the "I" in "I wooed thee with my sword"?

3. Who is the "thee" in the above quote?

"This man has bewitched the bosom of my child."

4. Who is the speaker of this line?

5. Who is the man?

6. Describe the metaphor? __________ = ____________

7. What word creates a synecdoche?

8. What consonant is alliterated?

9. Name the figurative device in "...you are but as a form in wax by him imprinted..."

10. Who is the "you" above?

11. Who is the "him" above?

Lysander: How now, my love? Why is your cheek so pale? 

How chance the roses there do fade so fast?

Hermia: Belike for want of rain, which I could well

Beteem them from the tempest of my eyes.

12. Describe the metaphor in Lysander’s line: _________ = ______________

13. In Hermia’s line, rain implies a metaphor with _____________.

14. What is the most likely tone for Hermia’s line: angry, loving, upset, or proud?

"The course of true love never did run smooth."

15. Rephrase the thematic statement in the previous line:

16. Who speaks the previous line?

17. What is the ironic/rhetorical device in "I give him curses, yet he gives me love." Oxymoron, verbal irony, paradox, or antithesis?

18. The speaker of "...he hath turned a heaven unto hell!"

19. The "he" above?

20. The sonic device above?

"Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind;" 21. Who speaks the above line?

22. Identify the two figurative devices in this thematic statement.

He hailed down oaths that he was only mine;
And when this hail some heat from Hermia felt,
So he dissolved, and show’rs of oaths did melt 23. Identify the "he" in the lines above.

24. Explain the extended metaphor.

Sc. 2

25. What excuse does Flute give for not wanting to play Thisbe?

26. Name the ironic device in "I’ll speak in a monstrous little voice."

27. Who is the speaker above?