Act 1
Act 2/3
Act 3
Adverbs
100

I hope I shall see an end of him; for my soul, yet I know not why, hates nothing more than he. Yet he’s gentle, never schooled and yet learned, full of noble device, of all sorts enchantingly beloved.

Oliver

100

I can suck melancholy out of a song as a weasel sucks eggs.

Jacques

100

Who said this and where?

Run, run, Orlando, carve on every tree the fair, the chaste, and unexpressive she.

Orlando

100

List the adverbs and the adjectives

Although she spoke quietly, everyone in the hall listened intently because her words carried unusual weight.

  • Adverbs

  • quietly (modifies spoke)

  • intently (modifies listened)

  • Adjective- unusual (modifies weight) 

200

What passion hangs these weights upon my tongue? I cannot speak to her, yet she urged conference.

Orlando

200

Poor old man, thou prun’st a rotten tree that cannot so much as a blossom yield in lieu of all thy pains and husbandry. But come thy ways, we’ll go along together. 



Orlando talking to Adam


Can you guess who the metaphor of the rotten tree is talking about?

200

Who said this?

Love is merely a madness, and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do... Yet I profess curing it by counsel.

Rosalind was telling Orlando that love is a form of madness that needs to be cured.

200

List the verbs and adverbs

Because the storm came suddenly and raged fiercely, the sailors struggled desperately to keep the ship afloat.

Adverbs

Suddenly, Fiercely, Desperately

Verbs

Came, Raged, Struggled, Keep

300

Come, come, wrestle with thy affections.

Celia

300

Are not these woods more free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we not the penalty of Adam.

Duke Senior

300

Who said this?

Dead shepherd, now I find thy saw of might, “Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?”

Phoebe, she is explaining she has fallen in love with Rosalind/Ganymede

300

Where are the adverbs?

She works hard and she speaks very well.

 Adverbs (irregular - don't end in ly)

Hard

Well

Very

400

Name all the action verbs

I hope I shall see an end of him; for my soul, yet I know not why, hates nothing more than he.

hope, shall see, know, hates

400

Name the verbs and nouns

I can suck melancholy out of a song as a weasel sucks eggs.

Verbs

  • can (modal auxiliary)

  • suck

  • sucks  


    • Nouns: melancholy (here used as a noun = sadness)

    • song

    • weasel

    • eggs

400

Run, run, Orlando, carve on every tree the fair, the chaste, and unexpressive she.

Can you list all the verbs and adjectives?

Verbs=Run, Carve

Adjectives=Fair, Chaste, unimpressive.

What do you think he means by unexpressive?

400

List all the adverbs, which words are they describing?

In As You Like It, Rosalind speaks wittily and boldly, while Touchstone jokes cleverly yet sometimes foolishly, and the play ultimately celebrates love joyfully and universally.

  • wittily → describes speaks (how Rosalind speaks)

  • boldly → describes speaks

  • cleverly → describes jokes

  • foolishly → describes jokes

  • ultimately → describes celebrates (to what extent / finally)

  • joyfully → describes celebrates

  • universally → describes celebrates

500

Name all the nouns

What passion hangs these weights upon my tongue? I cannot speak to her, yet she urged conference.

Passion, weights, tongue, conference

500

Can you name the adjectives?

Are not these woods more free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we not the penalty of Adam.

Free

Envious

500

Who said it?

Can you list the nouns?

"O, for shame, for shame, lie not, to say mine eyes are murderers.
Now show the wound mine eye hath made in thee."

  • shame 

  • eyes

  • murderers

  • wound

  • eye 

500

List all the adjectives and what they describe.

In As You Like It, Rosalind is a clever and courageous heroine, Orlando is a loyal and romantic lover, Touchstone is a foolish yet insightful clown, and the Forest of Arden is a place of natural beauty and magical transformation.

  • clever → describes Rosalind

  • courageous → describes Rosalind

  • loyal → describes Orlando

  • romantic → describes Orlando

  • foolish → describes Touchstone

  • insightful → describes Touchstone

  • natural → describes beauty of the forest

  • magical → describes transformation in the forest

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