| Amiable | friendly and agreeable in disposition; good- natured and likable |
| Enamored | inspired by love, captivated |
| Mirth | gladness and gaiety, especially when expressed in laughter |
| Sprite | a specter or ghost; a soul |
| Revenue | income, wealth |
| Chink | a narrow opening |
| Visage | face or appearence |
| Loath | be unwilling or reluctant; disinclined |
| Discourse | verbal expression in speech or writing |
| Rebuke | to criticize or reprove sharply; reprimand |
| Perjured | testified falsely under oath |
| Brake | a thicket |
| Enmity | deep seated, often mutual hate |
| Clamorous | noisy |
| Promontory | a high ridge of land or rock jutting out into a body of water |
| Filched | snitched or stole |
| Abjure | to give up, abstain from |
| Persuasion | a strongly held opinion, a conviction |
| Base | the lowest or bottom part |
| Lamentable | worthy of grief, mourning or regret |
| Extempore | spoken, carried out with little or no preparation |
| Discretion | ability or power to decide responsibly |
| Perforce | by necessity, by force or circumstance |
| Amorous | strongly attracted or disposed to love |
| Undistinguishable | having no unique markings; can’t be clearly seen |
| Rheumatic | suffering from aches in the muscles, joints or bones |
| Chaplet | a wreath or garland for the head |
| Dulcet | pleasing to the ear; melodious |
| Spurn | to kick at or tread on disdainfully |
| Flout | to show contempt for |
| Knavery | Unprincipled; crafty |
| Purge | to remove (impurities) by or as if by cleansing |
| Kindred | relatives |
| Bower | a woman’s private chamber |
| Lamenting | regretting deeply; mourning, expressly sorrowful |
| Consecrated | sacred |
| Fret | worry |
| Entwist | twist together |
| Dotage | a deterioration of mental faculties; sentility |
| Upbraid | to reprove sharply; reproach |
| Conjunction | a joint or simultaneous occurrence; concurrence |
| Recount | to narrate the facts or particulars of |
| Audacious | bold, insolent, spirited or original |
| Broached | pierced in order to draw off liquid |
| Tarrying | remaining or staying temporarily |
| Valor | courage and boldness, as in battle; bravery |
| Shroud | a cloth used to wrap a body for burial |
| Wane | a period of decline or decrease |
| Beguiled | deluded; cheated; diverted |
| Lysander | In love with Hermia, Puck puts the potion on his eyes on accident and makes him fall in love with Helena |
| Demetrius | Loves Hermia and Egeus approves of him, the fairies want him to fall in love with Helena |
| Quince | The director of the play; speaks the prologue |
| Egeus | Hermia’s father; wants Hermia to marry Demetrius not Lysander |
| Oberon | King of the fairies, has Titania (his queen) fall in love with the Bottom as a donkey |
| Flute | Plays Thisbe in the play (amazing actor) |
| Helena | Loves Demetrius (Demetrius does not love her); Puck gets Lysander and Demetrius to fall in love with her and she thinks it’s a joke |
| Hippolyta | King Theseus’ fiancé who was captured and forced to marry Theseus |
| Mustardseed | A fairy servant of Titania; Bottom jokes saying her family is spicy or sweet to eat |
| Peaseblossom | A fairy servant of Titania; Bottom jokes saying her mother is a squash and her father is a peascod |
| Hermia | BFF to Helena; loves Lysander, but is forced to marry Demetrius, become a nun or die |
| Puck | Servant to Oberon; switches the whole love triangle around; turns Bottom into a donkey (Goes by Robin too) |
| Bottom` | Plays Pyramus; his head gets turned into a donkey’s head; Titania falls in love with him (full of himself) |
| Theseus | King of Athens; engaged to Hippolyta |
| Titania | Queen of the fairies; falls in love with Bottom |
| Who is speaking this quote, who is the audience and what is happening?”Lord what fools these mortals be!” | Speaker- PuckAudience- OberonContext- Puck saying how ridiculous Lysander, Demetrius, Helena and Hermia are |
| Who is the speaker, who is the audience and what is happening in this quote?”O spite! O hell! I see you all are bent To set against me for your merriment: If you were civil and knew courtesy, You would not do me thus much injury.” | Speaker- HelenaAudience- Lysander and DemetriusContext- Helena thinks both of them are making fun of her |
| Who is the speaker, who is the audience and what is happening in this quote?”Hard-handed men that work in Athens here, Which never labour’d in their minds till now, And now have toil’d their unbreathed memories With this same play, against your nupital.” | Speaker- PhilostrateAudience- TheseusContext- Philostrate is talking about the actors and how the actors and the play itself is terrible |
| Who is the speaker, who is the audience and what is happening in this quote?”Go one of you, find out the forester; For now our observation is perform’d; And since we have vaward of the day, My love shall hear the music of my hounds. Uncouple in the western valley; let them go: Dispatch, I say, and find the forester.”Exit an Attendant”We will, fair queen, up to mountain’s top, And mark the musical confusion Of hounds and echo in conjunction.” | Speaker- TheseusAudience- Egeus, Hippolyta and trainContext- Theseus is talking about the hunt |
| Who is the speaker, who is the audience and what is happening in this quote?”A good persuasion: therefore, hear me, Hermia. I have a widow aunt, a dowager Of great revenue, and she hath no child: From Athens is her house remote seven leagues; And she respects me as her only son | Speaker- LysanderAudience- HermiaContext- Lysander talking about his aunt and how they can run away to his aunt’s house |
| Who is the speaker, who is the audience and what is happening in this quote?”Near to her close and consecrated bower, While she was in her dull and sleeping hour, A crew of patches, rude mechanicals That work for bread upon Athenian stalls Were met together to rehearse a play Intended for great Theseus’ nupital day.” | Speaker- PuckAudience- TheseusContext- Puck is telling Theseus how Titania fell in love with Bottom |
| Who is the speaker, who is the audience and what is happening in this quote?”Rather your eyes must with his judgement look.” | Speaker- TheseusAudience- HermiaContext- Theseus is telling Hermia to look through her father’s eyes instead of telling her father to look through hers |
| Who is the speaker, who is the audience and what is happening in this quote?”Methought I was enamour’d of an ass’ | Speaker- TitaniaAudience- OberonContext- She wakes up from the potion thinking it’s a dream and she tells Oberon she thought she fell in love with a donkey |
| Who is the speaker, who is the audience and what is happening in this quote?”If we offend, it is with our good will. That you should think, we come not to offend, But with good will. To show our simple skill, That is the true beginning of our end.” | Speaker- PuckAudience- UsContext- Puck is ending the play and making sure we weren’t offended (this a way of Shakespeare talking to us even though he is no longer here) |
| Who is the speaker, who is the audience and what is happening in this quote?”For Pyramus therein doth kill himself. Which, when I saw rehearsed, I must confess, Made mine eyes water; but more merry tears The passion of loud laughter never shed.” | Speaker- PhilostrateAudience- TheseusContext- Telling Theseus what the play is about and how he cried tears of laughter, but only because it was horrible to watch |
Herche English 9 Midsummer Night’s Dream info for Final Exam
August 30, 2019