WorksheetsA Midsummer Night's Dream Acts 1-2 and Terms to Know
Total questions: 32
Worksheet time: 16mins
an actor’s speech, directed to the audience, that is not supposed to be heard by other actors on stage
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This element of time and place can contribute to theme
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an introductory portion of the play which lets the audience know the important information it needs in order to see the action begin.
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The ending speech to a play. In Elizabethan times, this element would often serve to apologize for anything that may have offended the audience.
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This speech, where only one character speaks, is recited while other characters are present onstage.
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a long speech given by an actor alone on the stage which expresses the private inner thoughts of the character, a speech the character is giving to his/herself
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highlights the main character’s traits
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the contrast between what a character or reader expects and what actually happens.
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understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play
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a person says or writes one thing and means another, or uses words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of the literal meaning.
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A play on words
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A pattern of syllables in Shakespearean plays and sonnets
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Who said:
“I would my father look’d but with my eyes”
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Who said:
“Hippolyta, I woo’d thee with my sword,”
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Who said:
"You have her father's love, Demetrius;/ Let me have Hermia's - do you marry him.
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Who said:
"As she is mine I may dispose of her"
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Who said:
"I frown upon him [Demetrius] yet he loves me still."
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Who said:
“Through Athens I am thought as fair as she.”
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Who said:
“Call you me fair? That fair again unsay. / Demetrius loves your fair, O happy fair!”
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Who said:
“Lysander and myself will fly this place.”
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Who said:
"Let me play the lion too"
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Who said:
"Let me play Thisbe too"
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Who said:
“Through the forest have I gone/ But Athenian found I none,”
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Who said:
“Content with Hermia? No; I do repent/ The tedious minutes I with her have spent.”
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Who said:
"Nay, good Lysander, for my sake, my dear,/ Lie farther off yet, do not lie so near."
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Who said:
"What wicked and dissembling glass of mine/ Made me compare with Hermia's sphery eyne?"
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Who said:
"Not Hermia but Helena I love./ Who will not change a raven for a dove?"
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Who said:
"And for her sake do I rear up her boy;/ And for her sake I will not part with him."
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Who said:
"I am that merry wanderer of the night/ I jest to Oberon, and make him smile,"
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Who said:
"How canst thou thus, for shame, Titania,/ Glance at my credit with Hippolyta,"
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Who said:
"Fetch me that flower, the herb I showed thee once,"
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Who said:
“Lysander, how I do quake with fear! /Methought a serpent ate my heart away,/ And you sat smiling at his cruel prey.”
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