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A Midsummer Night's Dream Vocabulary

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

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

a)

aside

b)

pun

c)

soliloquy

d)

dramatic irony

2.

Act I: Feigning

a)

worship

b)

regrettable

c)

pretending

d)

unrehearsed

3.

Act I: Dowager

a)

pretending

b)

worship

c)

regrettable

d)

a dignified elderly woman

4.

Act I: Which word means "regrettable"?

(a)  

5.

Act II: Which word means "clever"?

(a)  

6.

Act II: "Languish" means to grow ____.

a)

weak

b)

old

c)

clever

d)

tall

7.

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

(a)  

8.

Act III: Entreat

a)

beg

b)

warmly

c)

sacred

d)

mockery

9.

Act III: Consecrated

a)

beg

b)

warmly

c)

sacred

d)

mockery

10.

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

(a)  

11.

Act IV: Which word is defined as "having a friendly and pleasant manner"?

(a)  

12.

Act IV: Which word is a synonym for "conversation"?

a)

coy

b)

enmity

c)

marred

d)

discourse

13.

Act IV: Which word is an antonym for "love"?

a)

amiable

b)

discourse

c)

coy

d)

enmity

14.

Act IV: Which word means spoiled?

a)

marred

b)

coy

c)

enmity

d)

amiable

15.

Act V: Which word is an antonym for "cautious"?

a)

frantic

b)

beguile

c)

premeditated

d)

audacious

16.

Act V: Which word means to charm or enchant someone?

(a)  

17.

Act V: "Planned" or "calculated" is a synonym for which word?

a)

audacious

b)

premeditated

c)

beguile

d)

frantic

18.

Act V: Which word can be defined as "frenzied"?



(a)  

19.

Which literary term refers to a remark in a play intended to be heard by the audience but not the other characters in the play?

(a)  

20.

_____ irony is when the audience or reader knows something that the characters in the play do not.

a)

verbal

b)

situational

c)

dramatic