Show:
Important Phrases Act I Scene 1
Important Phrases Act I Scene 2
Important Phrases Act II Scene 1
Important Phrases Act II Scene 2
Characters & Settings
Acts I & II
100
“Now, fair Hippolyta, our NUPTIAL hour/ Draws on apace.” (act I, scene 1, lines 1-2) Says this character as he is addressing proximity of the upcoming NUPTIAL, or this event to his wife Hippolyta.
Who is Theseus and what is a wedding event.
100
“Nay, faith, let let not me play a woman. I have a/ beard coming” (act I, scene 2, lines 45-46). The role of Thisbe is to be played by this character.
Who is Flute the Bellows-Mender.
100
“I’ll put a girdle about earth/ In forty minutes” (act 2, scene 1, lines 181-182). Puck believes he is fast enough to put a girdle or ____ around the earth in 40 minutes, giving assurance that fetching a magic flower won't be a problem.
What is orbit or travel.
100
“Night and silence! Who is there?/ Weeds of Athens he doth wear.” (act 2, scene 2, lines 76-77). Puck, Looking for two Athenians, spots Lysander by his weeds or this.
What is clothing.
100
This is a name for where Titania sleeps.
What is Titania's Bower.
200
“Four days will quickly steep themselves into night ... and the moon, like to a silver bow/ New bent in heaven, shall behold the night/ Of our SOLEMNITIES” (act I, scene 1, lines 7-11) makes a comparison of this to add meaning to the text.
What are the waning moon and a silver bow.
200
“You may do it extempore (w/ out thought), for it is nothing but/ Roaring” (act I, scene 2, lines 66-67). This character provides solutions to many of the production issues including the problem from the excerpt, where Snug is worried about memorizing his script.
Who is Peter Quince.
200
“TARRY rash wanton, Am I not thy lord?” (act 2, scene 1, line 65). Oberon demands that Titania Tarry or ____ before deciding she doesn't want him in her bed.
What is delay.
200
“Through the forest have I gone/ But Athenian I found none.” (act 2, scene 2, lines 72-73). Puck, searching for two Athenians, uses reversed sentence order to announce this
What is he has gone through the forest but hasn't found the Athenians he was looking for.
200
This is where all of the fairies live.
What is the Enchanted Forrest.
300
“I WOOED thee with my sword/ And won thy love doing thee injuries,/ But I will wed thee in another key,/ With POMP, with triumph, and with REVELING” (act I, scene 1, lines 17-20). Theseus was able to woo or do this to Hippolyta with his sword.
What is win affection of.
300
“Here are your parts, and I am/ to entreat you, request you, and desire you to con/ Them by tomorrow night and meet me in the palace/ Wood . . .” (act I, scene 2, lines 95-99). Peter Quince is not only requesting and desiring that the men in his production learn their parts, he ENTREATS them or does this to persuade them to study their parts hard.
What is beg or plead.
300
“Fetch me this herb, and be thou here again/ Ere the leviathan can swim a league” (act 2, scene 1, line 65). Based on the excerpt Oberon is asking Puck to do this:
What is fetch an herb and come back.
300
“Not Hermia but Helena I love./ Who will not change a raven for a dove?” (act 2, scene 2, lines 120-121). In this metaphor, Lysander compares this character to this bird, and this other character to this bird to show which woman he obviously dotes upon.
What are Hermia to a raven and Helena to a dove.
300
This Character has no lines in the whole play, but is crucial in the conflict between Titania and Oberon.
Who is the Indian boy.
400
“With CUNNING hast thou FILCHED my daughter’s heart” (act I, scene 1, line 37). Egeus accuses Lysander of FILCHING or doing this to Hermia's heart.
What is steal.
400
“Here is the scroll of every man’s name which/ Is thought fit, through all of Athens, to play in our/ Interlude Before the Duke and Duchess on his/ Wedding day night” (act I, scene 2, lines 4-7). Based upon the excerpt, the group preforming the play is planning on presenting it the day of the wedding of Theseus and Hippolyta as an INTERLUDE or this:
What is a small play between acts of a larger play.
400
“Either I mistake you are shape and making quite,/ Or else you are that SHREWD and KNAVISh sprite/ Called Robin Goodfellow” (act 2, scene 1, lines 33-35). The fairy talking with Puck asks him if he is a famed SHREWD and KNAVISH sprite or this and this fairy.
What are mischievous and judgmental.
400
“Hence away! Now all is well./ One aloof stay sentinel.” (act 2, scene 2, lines 31-32). Still concerned about general safety, but satisfied by the lulling song of her fairies, Titania lets all but one fairy to perform their ordered tasks but one who she orders to stay sentinel or this.
What is on guard or duty.
400
This character doesn't play an important role, but is in both acts I and IV.
Who is Philostrate.
500
“I would my father looked but with my eyes”/ “Rather with you eyes must with his judgement look” (act I, scene 1, lines 58-59). Unscrambled, these two lines read approximately this:
What is "I would like to have my father look with my eyes"/"Instead your eyes should look with his judgement"
500
“Marry, our play is the most lamentable/ comedy and the most cruel death of Pyramus and/ Thisbe.” (act I, scene 2, lines 11-13). The Characters of Pyramus and Thisbe relate to the experiences of these important characters.
Who are Hermia and Lysander.
500
“And I serve the fairy Queen/ To dew her orbs upon the green/ The cowslips tall her pensioners be;/ In their gold coats spots you see;/ Those be rubies, fairy favors;/ In those freckles live their savors” (act 2, scene 1, lines 8-13). The fairy talking to Puck is describing how it's her duty to "dew" the queens "orbs" upon the green. She also makes an allusion by comparing cowslips to these.
What are Royal Guards.
500
“For she hath blessed and attractive eyes./How came her eyes so bright?/ Not with salt tears./ If so, my eyes are oftener washed than hers.” (act 2, scene 2, lines 96-100). Jealous of Hermias' ability to attract Demetrius without working as hard as she and alone in the woods, Helena questions herself if Hermia's eyes are bright because of this, reffering to the hardships she's had trying to win back the affection of Demetrius.
What are salt tears/crying.
500
This character is present throughout Act I, Scene 2, but has no lines.
Who is Snout the tinker.