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Who Said It?
What's it mean?
Said to whom?
Example of...?
From which Act?
100
"The course of true love never did run smooth."
Who is "Lysander"?
100
OBERON: "And, gentle Puck, take this transformed scalp / From off the head of this Athenian swain..." Does "swain" mean "queen" or "hillbilly"?
What is "hillbilly"?
100
"Get you gone, you dwarf, / You minimus of hind'rin knotgrass made, / You bead, you acorn--"
Who is "Hermia"?
100
"A tedious brief scene of very tragical mirth." metaphor or oxymoron?
What is "oxymoron"?
100
BOTTOM: "I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream past the wit of man to say what dream it was."
What is "Act IV"?
200
Now I perceive that she hath made compare / Between our statures; she hath urged her height, / And with her personage, her tall personage, / Her height forsooth. she hath prevailed with him."
Who is "Hermia"?
200
"O, wherefore, Nature didst thou lions frame, / Since lionvile hath here deflowered my dear, / Which is--no, no--which was the fairest dame / That lived, that loved, that liked, that looked with cheer?" Does "wherefore" mean "why" or "because"?
What is "why"?
200
"My good lord, I wot not by what power / (But by some power it is) my lover to Hermia, / Melted as the sone, seems to me now / As the remembrance of an idle gaud / Which in my childhood I did dote upon, / And all the faith, the virtue of my heart, / The object and pleasure of mine eye, / Is only Helena."
Who is "Theseus" or "the Duke"?
200
"LYSANDER: I had no judgement when to her I swore! HELENA: Nor none in my mind, now you give her o'er." imagery or couplet?
What is a "couplet"?
200
LYSANDER: "If thou lovest me, then / Steal forth thy father's house tomorrow night, / And in the wood a league without the town / There will I stay for thee."
What is "Act I"?
300
"If I do it, let the audience look to their eyes. I will move storms; I will condole in some measure."
Who is "Bottom"?
300
LYSANDER: "Why should you think that I should woo in scorn? Scorn and derision never come in tears." Does "woo" mean "romance" or "fight"?
What is "romance"?
300
"An I may hide my face, let me play Thisbe too."
Who is "Peter Quince"?
300
"How low am I thou painted maypole!" simile or metaphor?
What is "metaphor"?
300
HERMIA: "I am amazed and know not what to say."
What is "Act III"?
400
"On the ground / Sleep sound. / I'll apply / To your eye, / Gentle lover, remedy."
Who is "Puck" or "Robin"?
400
DEMETRIUS: "Relent, sweet Hermia, and, Lysander, yield / Thy crazed title to my certain right." Does "title" mean "work of art" or "claim to marry"?
What is "claim to marry"?
400
"Give me that boy and I will go with thee."
Who is "Titania"?
400
"Tomorrow night when the moon doth behold / Her silver visage in the wat'ry glass, / Decking with liquid pearl the bladed grass / (A time that lovers' flights doth still conceal), / Through Athens' gates have we devised to steal." hyperbole or personification?
What is "personification"?
400
THESEUS: "The wall, methinks, being sensible, should curse again."
What is "Act V"?
500
"I never may believe / These antique fables, nor these fairy toys. / Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, / Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend / More than cool reason ever comprehends."
Who is Theseus?
500
ROBIN: "Captain of our fairy band, / Helena is here at hand, / And the youth, mistook by me, / Pleading for a lover's fee." Does youth refer to "Demetrius" or "Lysander"?
Who is "Lysander"?
500
"O...goddess, nymph, perfect, divine! / To what, my love, shall I compare thine eyen? / Crystal is muddy."
Who is "Helena"?
500
"Give me your hands if we be friends / And Robin shall restore amends." synecdoche or metonymy?
What is "metonymy"?
500
FAIRY: "Either I mistake your shape and making quite, / Or else you are that shrewd and knavish sprite / Called Robin Goodfellow."
What is "Act II"?