A Midsummer Night's Dream Vocabulary

What literary term is a play on words in which the word/phrase has a double meaning?

• aside

• pun

• soliloquy

• dramatic irony

Act I: Feigning

• worship

• regrettable

• pretending

• unrehearsed

Act I: Dowager

• pretending

• worship

• regrettable

• a dignified elderly woman

Act I: Which word means "regrettable"?

Act II: Which word means "clever"?

Act II: "Languish" means to grow ____.

• weak

• old

• clever

• tall

Act II: Which word is defined as "an option of doctrine contrary to church dogma"?

Act III: Entreat

• beg

• warmly

• sacred

• mockery

Act III: Consecrated

• beg

• warmly

• sacred

• mockery

Act III: Which word means "ridicule or mockery"?