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Inverted Sentences
Figures of Speech
Figures of Speech
Challenging Words
Challenging Words
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Rewrite the following sentence. My mistress with a monster is in love”. A Midsummer Night's Dream Act 3 Scene 2 Line 6
My mistress is in love with a monster.
100
Call you me fair? That fair against unsay. Demetrius loves your fair: O happy fair! Your eyes are lode-stars; A Midsummer Night's Dream Act 1 Scene 1 Lines 181-183
Helena is asking Hermia what she means by fair. She asks if Hermia is mocking her, and says that her eyes are lodestars. The kind of figurative language used here is a simile used when comparing Hermia's eyes with lodestars.
100
Explain the figure of Speech “ Four days will quickly steep themselves in night ... and then the moon. like to a silver bow/ New bent in heaven, shall behold the night/ Of our solemnities”.
The figure of speech is a simile. The moon is being compared to a bow.
100
I dote on thee
Dote means to adore
100
Or else you are that shrewd and knavish sprite.... A Midsummer Night's Dream Act 2 Scene 1 Lines 19
Shrewd means being clever in a mischievous manner.
200
Rewrite the following sentence. “Happy be Theseus, our renowned duke!.../ Full of vexation come I, with complaint./ Against my child, my daughter Hermia,-”. A Midsummer Nights Dream Act 1 Scene 1 Lines 23 and 24
I come here full of vexation
200
One that composed your beauties, yea, and one To whom you are but as a form in wax By him imprinted and within his power To leave the figure or disfigure it. A Midsummer Night's Dream Act 1 Scene 1 Lines 48-51
Theseus is telling Hermia that when compared to her father, she is nothing but a figure made of wax and it was by his power that she is here today. The kind of figurative language used here is a metaphor.
200
Explain the Figure of Speech “Fetch Me that flower; the herb I showed thee once. The juice of it on sleeping eyelids laid.”
The eyelids are said to be sleeping, so it is Personification.
200
Our queen and all her elves come here anon.
Anon means soon
200
The king doth keep his revels here tonight. A Midsummer Night's Dream Act 2 Scene 1 Lines 4-5
Revels means festivities.
300
Rewrite the following. Yet marked I where the bolt of Cupid fell.” A Midsummer Night's Dream Act 2 Scene 1 Line 150
I marked where the arrow fell.
300
Theseus is asking Hermia what she thinks about the situation and tells her that she should regard her father as a god. The kind of figurative language used here is a similie.
Identify and Explain the figure of speech What say you, Hermia? Be advised fair maid: To you your father should be as a god. A Midsummer Night's Dream Act 1 Scene 1 Lines 46-47
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And then the moon, like a silver bow New-bent in heaven, shall behold the night Of our solemnities. A Midsummer Night's Dream Act 1 Scene 1 Lines 7-11
Hippolyta is telling Theseus that four day will quickly pass and in four days, the moon, shaped as a bow, will look down on their wedding celebration. The type of figurative language used here is a simile.
300
Some keep back the clamorous owl
Clamorous means loud.
300
Tarry, rash wanton. Am not I thy lord? A Midsummer Night's Dream Act 2 Scene 1 Lines 49
Tarry means to delay.
400
“And even for that do I love you the more.” A Midsummer Night's Dream Act 3 Scene 1 Line 150
And I love you even more for that.
400
Explain the figure of Speech How now, my love! Why is your cheek so pale? How chance the roses there do fade so fast? A Midsummer Night's Dream Lines 128-129
Lysander is asking Hermia what is wrong. He also asks why the rosiness in her cheeks has gone away. Example of a simile.
400
“The cowslips tall her pensioners be” A Midsummer Night's Dream Act 2 Scene 1
They flowers are her bodyguard.
400
Be back faster than the Leviathan can swim three leagues. A Midsummer Nights Dream Act 2 Scene 1
League means a distance of around 3 miles.
500
Explain the Figure of Speech And then the moon, like a silver bow New-bent in heaven, shall behold the night Of our solemnities. A Midsummer Night's Dream Act 1 Scene 1 Lines 7-11
Hippolyta is telling Theseus that four day will quickly pass and in four days, the moon, shaped as a bow, will look down on their wedding celebration. The type of figurative language used here is a simile.
500
What say you, Hermia? Be advised fair maid: To you your father should be as a god. A Midsummer Night's Dream Act 1 Scene 1 Lines 46-47
Theseus is asking Hermia what she thinks about the situation and tells her that she should regard her father as a god. The kind of figurative language used here is a similie.
500
Or else you are that shrewd and knavish sprite... A Midsummer Night's Dream Act 2 Scene 1 Lines 19
Knavish means to be deceptive.