Actors alter play by | adding two prologues |
Bottom sings about a cuckoo bird which symbolizes | a cuckhold, a man whose wife cheats on him |
An example of dramatic irony is | audience knows Puck put ass-head on Bottom but characters don’t |
Helena’s reaction to both Demetrius and Lysander claiming they love her | thinks they are mocking her and gets upset |
Oberon assumes Puck purposefully put the nectar on the wrong man’s eyes because | Puck enjoys playing tricks on humans and delights in the chaos his tricks have caused |
When Puck tells Oberon that Titania has fallen in love with a monster | Oberon says his plan is working out better than he had planned |
Helena is insecure because she | knows Lysander loves Hermia, she’s been hurt by Demetrius, and she believes Hermia is more beautiful |
“Cupid is a knavish lad/Thus to make poor females mad.” This line refers to | the arguing and name-calling between Hermia and Helena |
Hermia’s initial reaction to Lysander professing his love for Helena is | confusion and not knowing what is going on |
What physical trait do the women use to insult each other? | height |
Puck makes sure that Demetrius and Lysander don’t hurt each other by | imitating the men’s voices to separate them and get them tired so they fall asleep |
Who is “little, but fierce.”? | Hermia |
Who says, “Our sex, as well as I, may chide you for it/Though I alone feel the injury.” | Helena |
Who says, “Shall we their fond pageant see?/Lord, what fools these mortals be!”? | Puck |
Who says, “And yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.”? | Bottom |
Which element of comedy is shown in the quotes, “You see an ass-head of your own, do you? . . . I see their knavery. This is to make an ass of me, to fright me, if they could.”? | Comedic language |
Rebuke | scold, criticize, be rude to |
Brake | thicket, bushy area |
Enamored | in love with |
Knavery | trickery, slyness, deceitfulness |
Purge | get rid of, cleanse |
Pun | a humorous way of using a word so that more than one meaning is suggested |
Nick Bottom’s profound insights | reason and love keep little company, claims he’s not wise and lost in the woods |
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Act III Quiz Review
August 8, 2019