'A Midsummer Night's Dream' - Plot
Q: Who does Egeus want Hermia to marry? (100 Points)
A: Demetrius
Q: Who said, “The course of true love never did run smooth?” (100 points)
A: Lysander
Q: Define setting. (100 points)
A:the time and location in which a story takes place.
Q: What is the name of the story we read about a barber? (100 points)
A: Just Lather, That's All
Q: Repetition of the same sound at the end of words. (100 points)
A: Rhyme
Q: Define metaphor. (100 Points)
A: Comparing 2 things without using like or as.
Q: What year was Shakespeare born? (100 Points)
A: 1564
Q: What is the cause of the conflict between Oberon and Titania? (200 Points)
A: The Indian Child
Q: After taking the potion, which character did Titania fall in love with? (200 Points)
A: Bottom
Q: Name the sections of Freytag's plot diagram and what they represent (200 points).
A: Introduction/Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, resolution/Denouement
Q: What is the theme of "The Possibility of Evil"? (200 points)
A: appearances vs reality, isolation and privilege, presence of evil
Q: An exaggeration. (200 points)
A: Hyperbole
Q: Which two subject terminologies are shown in “O spite! Too old to be engag’d to young!” (200 points)
A: Antithesis & Ecphonesis
Q: How do you properly cite from 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'? (200 Points)
A: (Shakespeare Act #. Scene #. Line #)
Q: Name 2 things that make the play performed by the mechanicals ridiculous. (300 points)
A: They exposed the plot before acting, messing up lines, and had to reassure the audience about the character, etc.
Q: Who is chosen to be the lion in the Mechanical’s play? (300 Points)
A: Snug
Q: Name the 2 types of conflict and define them. (300 points)
A: External and Internal
Q: What is the internal conflict in "Just Lather, That's All"? Explain. (300 points)
A: Person vs. Self - he is facing his conscience in whether he should commit murder or not.
Q: Poetry that does not follow rules. It has no rhyme or consistent pattern. (300 points)
A: Free verse
Q: The literal, dictionary definition of a word. (300 Points)
A: Denotation.
Q: What is the largest island in the world? (300 Points)
A: Greenland
Q: Where was Lysander and Hermia planning to get married? (400 points)
Lysander's Dowager Aunt's House
Q: According to the chain of being, rank the following characters from decreasing ranks. Hermia, Theseus, Tom Snout, Titania, Egeus (400 points)
A: Titania> Theseus> Egeus> Hermia> Tom Snout
Q: What is a character, an action, a setting, or an object representing something else called? (400 points)
A: A symbol
Q: Provide an example of foreshadowing in "The Man With No Eyes". (400 points)
A: The mention of the Malacca (a cane used for persons that are blind)
Q: An underlying message or idea that the poet wants the reader to think about. (400 points)
A: Themes
Q: Define oxymoron. (400 Points)
A: A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (Ex. small crown, old news, living dead, pretty ugly, etc.)
Q: Who is the author of the book 'The Hate U Give'? (400 Points)
A: Angie Thomas
Q: What does Puck say the audience should do if they haven't enjoyed the play? (500 Points)
A: Pretend it was a dream
A: Peter Quince
Q: Name the 3 types of irony and define them. (500 points)
A:
1. Verbal irony - Contract between what is said and what is meant (sarcasm)
2. Dramatic irony - Contrast between what the character thinks to be true and what we (the reader) know to be true.
3. Situational irony - Contrast between what happens ad what was expected (or what would seem appropriate)
Q. Define and provide an example of Omniscient limited. (500 points)
A: When an author tells a story in the third person using she, they, them, he, etc.
Q: A fourteen line poem written in iambic pentameter. (500 points)
Sonnet
Find 3 literary devices in the following quote:
You, ladies, you whose gentle hearts do fear/ The smallest monstrous mouse that creeps on floor,/ May now perchance both quake and tremble here,/ When lion rough in wildest rage doth roar. (Shakespeare 5.1.212-215)
- Oxymoron "smallest monstrous"
- Alliteration "monstrous mouse"
- Semantic field of being scared and gentle "gentle", "quake" and "tremble"
- Repetition "you"
A: CXV
Q: What TYPE of flower is love-in-idleness? (1000 Points)
A: A pansy
A: The wall and the moon.
Q: What is a short and interesting story, or amusing event, often proposed to support or demonstrate some point, and to make the audience laugh? (1000 points)
A: Anecdote
Q: How and why are the roses objects of symbolism in the story "The Possibility of Evil"?
A: They are beautiful on the outside but filled with thorns.
Q: A poem that tells a story, sometimes in the form of music. It usually is told in four-line stanzas. (1000 points)
Ballad
Find 3 literary devices in the following quote:
OBERON
Through the house give glimmering light,/ By the dead and drowsy fire./ Every elf and fairy sprite/ Hop as light as bird from brier./ And this ditty, after me,/ Sing and dance it trippingly. (Shakespeare 5.1.371-376)
- Imagery "glimmering light"
- Personification "drowsy fire"
- Alliteration "give glimmering", "dead and drowsy" and "bird from brier"
- Simile "Hop as light as bird from brier"
- Sensory language "glimmering light", "sing"
Q: What is the gender of Mrs. Hammel's baby? (1000 Points)
A: Girl