REVISED QUOTES A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S
DREAM 2005
LOCATE THE FOLLOWING QUOTES
IN YOUR TEXT. THEN ANSWER THE QUESTIONS WHICH FOLLOW THE QUOTE ON A WORD
DOCUMENT AND SAVE IT IN A FILE ENTITLED MND
QUOTES.
(The act,sc,ln
of each quote follows it. The page number is also listed.)
A.”…Therefore the moon,
governess of floods…” 2.1.103
p. 21
1. Literary technique used????
2. What object is being given human characteristics? 3. What is this object ‘governing’?
B. “Love looks not with the
eyes, but with the mind; 1.1.234-35 p. 11
And
therefore is wing’d Cupid painted blind.
4. Speaker? 5.Meaning?
C.
“Lord, what fools these mortal be?” 3.2.115 p. 45 6. Speaker? 7. Lord?? 8.fools
refer to??
D. :I am
your spaniel;/ The more you beat me, I will fawn on you.” 2.1.203-05 p.24
9. Speaker? 9a.
fawn means? 10. Spoken to?
11. The
speaker compares herself to a
E.
“I am, my lord, as well derived as he, 1.1.99-100
p. 6
As well possess’d
as he; my love is more than his.”
12.
Speaker?? 13. My lord refers to??? 14. he refers
to?? 15. Who does the speaker love?
F.
“…the green corn/ Hath rotted ere his youth attained a beard…” 2.1.9405 p. 20
16. Literary technique?? 17.
What 2 things are being compared??
17a. What does ere mean?
G.
“…The course of true love never did run smooth;” 1.1.134 p. 8
18. Speaker?? 19.Spoken to? 20. Meaning?
H.
“Mine ear is much enamored of thy note; 3.1.139-40 p. 38
So is mine eye enthralled to thy shape;”
21.
Speaker? 22.Spoken to?
23. enamored means? 24.
Why is this quote funny?
I. So
doth the woodbine the sweet honeysuckle 4.1.45-47 p. 61
Gently entwist; the female ivy so
Enrings the barky fingers of the elm.
25.
Speaker: 26. Spoken to: 27.
‘ivy’ refers to????
28. ‘elm’
refers to????
J. Man
is but an ass, if he go about to expound this dream.” 4.2.209-210 p.
67
Why
is this quote written in prose form rather than poetic form?
29. Speaker? 30.
Why is this quote funny?
K. Her dotage now I do begin to pity: 4.1.50 p. 61
31.
Speaker? 32.Spoken
to?
33.
What does ‘her dotage’ refer to????
34. Who does the speaker now pity???
35.
Why does he pity her????
L.
On the ground 3.2.448-52 p. 57
Sleep sound:
I’ll apply
To your eye,
Gentle lover, remedy.
36.
Speaker: 37. Who is sleeping
sound on the ground???
38.
‘Gentle lover’ refers to whom???
39. What us being remedied???
M.
O, that a lady, of one man refused, 2.2.133 p. 31
Should of another therefore be abused!
40. Speaker: 41.
‘lady’ refers to????
42.
Which man is refusing the speaker?
43.
Which man is abusing her????
44.
Why does the speaker believe the second man is abusing her?