Theseus | the duke of Athens |
Egeus | Hermia’s father |
Hermia | Helena’s best friend |
Demetrius | the man in love with Hermia loved by Helena |
Lysander | the man in love with Hermia and loved by Helena |
Helena | How happy some o’er other some can be! Through Athens I am thought as fair as she. What of that? Demetrius thinks not so. |
Oberon | Thou shalt not from this grove Till I torment tee for this injury |
Hippolyta | queen of the Amazons |
Puck | also called Robin Goodfellow |
Bottom | I see their knavery. This is to make an ass of me. |
Quince | the leader of the acting troop, plays prologue |
Titania | queen of the fairies |
Philostrate | master of ceremonies at the Duke’s wedding |
Cobweb | fairy servant of Titania |
Starveling | actor who plays the moon |
TP- CASTT | an acronym that provides us with a method, step by step, for analyzing poetry |
Title | examine the title BEFORE reading the poem (make a prediction) |
Paraphrase | first read the poem then translate the poem into your own words |
Connotation | examine the poem for meaning beyond the literal look for specific diction that suggests interpretation write words and connotative meanings list specifics/imagerysymbolism/ironyallusions/sound devices3 WORDS |
Attitude | tone (tone + evidence) LOOK FOR: occasion, key words, punctuation/stanza division/change in length |
Shift | note shifts in speakers/ attitudes look for key wordspunctuationstanza divisionschanges in sound/diction |
Title | examine the title again (interpretive) what new insight does the title provide in understanding the poem? add sentence of meaning |
Theme | list subjectsdetermine lesson (theme) C E CM |
Sonnet | 14 lines, usually written in labic pentameter (lines are 10 syllables and accents fall on every other syllable) |
Limerick | 5 line poem written in following the rhyme scheme abba, allowing for a bouncy rhythm and easy memorization. They are suppose to be funny and most have hyperbole, omnomntopia, idioms, puns, and other devices. The last line of a limerick contains a punch line |
Persona/Mask Poem | a poem with the subject of the poem as a speaker |
Tanka | poetic form related to a haiku/expresses images and nature consist of 5 lines 5-7-5-7-7 |
Haiku | poetic form with 3 short lines; first line: 5second line: 7third line: 5 |
Ode | a poem that celebrates a person, animal, or object; often written without constraints of formal structure or rhyme |
Concrete/Shape Poem | the words in a concrete or shape poem are arranged on the page to indicate the poem’s subject |
acrostic poem | descriptive poem in which the first letter of each word in the line spells out the subject with no rhyme scheme |
couplet | 2 lines of poetry that go together; couplets rhyme and usually expresses a complete thought |
lyric poetry | makes impact in brief space; stresses moments of feeling; it is honest and direct; appears spontaneous |
free verse poetry | no rhyming pattern |
rhyme scheme | pattern of rhyme |
I would my father looked but with my eyes | Hermia |
The course of true love never did run smooth | Lysander |
For, ere Demetrius looked on Hermia’s eyne, He hailed down oaths that he was only mine; | Helena |
Let me play the lion too. | Bottom |
But I will aggravate my voice so that i will roar you as gently as any sucking dove.-malapropism | Bottom |
Not Hermia, but Helena I love. | Lysander |
And reason says you are the worthier maid. | Lysander |
Find out moonshine, find out moonshine-malapropism | Bottom |
aside | theatrical term when the actor tells the audience something the characters (do not know) |
Bless the, Bottom, bless thee! Thou art translated! -malapropism (transformed) | Quince |
O me! (to Helena) You juggler, you canker blossom. | Hermia |
How low am I, thou painted maypole? Speak! How low am I? I am not yet so low but that my nails can reach unto thine eyes. | Hermia |
Now, when thou wak’st, with thine own fool’s eyes peep. | Robin |
The object and the pleasure of mine eye, Is only Helena | Demetrius |
I have had a most rare vision. | Bottom |
I shall sing it at her death. | Bottom |
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet are of imagination all compact. | Theseus |
Pyramus (the man) and Thisbe (the woman) | meet at moonlight Thisbe comes first scared by a lion drops mantle lion bleeds on it Pyramus sees it and kills himself because he thinks she’s dead and Thisbe comes back and sees Pyramus dead and kills herself |
This is the silliest stuff that I ever heard. | Hippolyta |
How chance Moonshine is gone before Thisbe comes back and finds her lover? | Hippolyta |
english Final study guide A midsummer night’s dream and poetry
August 19, 2019