“The course of true love never did run smooth.”
Lysander
This character orders Puck to use the love potion on Demetrius.
Oberon
At the end of Act 1, Scene 1, Helena delivers her emotions, representing this tool.
soliloquy
"When they next wake, all this derision / Shall seem a _____ and fruitless vision." (Oberon)
dream
This is the last character to speak in the play.
Puck
“If we shadows have offended, / Think but this, and all is mended…”
Robin Goodfellow (Puck)
This character has a nightmare about a serpent.
Hermia
The moon often appears during key events in the forest, representing the passage of time and change, and is an example of this tool.
"Lovers and madmen have such _____ brains." (Theseus)
seething
This mechanical plays "Moonshine" in Pyramus and Thisbe.
Starveling
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.”
Helena
These two characters are the first to be put under the flower's spell.
Lysander and Titania
This tool occurs when the audience knows that Puck has mistakenly enchanted the wrong Athenian, but the characters on stage remain unaware.
dramatic irony
"O me! You juggler, you cankerblossom, / You _____ of love!" (Hermia)
thief
This is the nickname of the flower that has the magic powers.
"love-in-idleness"
“I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.”
Nick Bottom
In Pyramus and Thisbe, this mechanical plays Wall.
Snout
Write a sentence in iambic pentameter.
(varies)
“I’ll follow thee and make a _____ of hell, / To die upon the hand I love so well.” (Helena)
heaven
This word means to mock or make fun of someone in a very cruel way.
derision
“These are the forgeries of jealousy…”
Titania
This character defies traditional Athenian Law, and allows the lovers to marry each other.
Theseus
Shakespeare often has two lines of iambic pentameter back to back that have the same ending sound, showing this tool.
rhyming couplet
“And yet, to say the truth, ______ and ______ keep little company together nowadays.” (Bottom)
reason and love
In Pyramus and Thisbe, the lovers decide to meet at this specific location.
Ninus' (Ninny's) Tomb