English final

• The longest day of the year

  Midsummer's Night
• Midsummer's Night was believed to bring about a type of madness due to the heat and length of the day
• Fairies


  Believed to be fallen angels working with the devil, but were considered more mischievous than evil
• Fairies


  • Thought to play tricks on people
  • Shakespearean fairies are more good spirited towards the humans
• Fairy tricks


  • Stealing a human child and replacing it with a weak, grotesque, fairy child
  • Creating fake lantern light that would love people to the edge of a cliff
• Moonlight and magic often went together, they believed that magic was strengthened by moonlight, and so most magical events were believed to occur at night
• What is the setting in A Midsummer Night’s Dream?

  Athens, Ancient Greece, surrounding forest
• Who loves who? 


  Helena-> Demetrius-> Hermia-> <-Lydander
• Five Act Structure 


  Act I: Exposition

  Act II: Rising Action

  Act III: Climax

  Act IV: Falling Action

  Act V: Resolution

  
• Prose


  More like regular writing
• BLANKVERSE

  • Poetry written with a set rhythm and meter (like iambic pentameter 10 beats)
  • May or may not rhyme
• Reasons Shakespeare switches to prose

  • To indicate characters of low status
  • For informal comedic and domestic scenes
  • To indicate familiarity, secrecy, or conspiracy between characters
• Dramatic irony


  When a character's speech or actions is revealed to the audience but unknown to the character, when the audience knows more than the characters
• Sentence


  Needs a subject (noun or pronoun) and a verb. Can have as few as two words and still be complete.
• Fragment


  Not a complete thought
• Sentence


  • Jack runs.
  • Who she is, I don’t know.
• Fragment


  • Because I have no money.
  • Since the work isn't done and we need to leave, but we can come back tomorrow.
• Run-on sentence


  Contains more than one complete sentence without proper punctuation
• Separating two complete thoughts in a run-on sentence

  1. Put a period between them and start the second sentence with a capital

  2. Put a semicolon between them if the two sentences are closely related

  3. Add a FANBOYS conjunction after the comma
• Run-on sentences 


  • I ate pizza, my brother ate a hamburger.
  • I took the train, then I had to take two buses to get there.
• Theseus:


  Duke of Athens, a legendary ruler, fought with various monsters and killed the Minotaur that threatened to destroy the island of Crete
• Hippolyta: 


  Queen of the Amazons (betrothed to Theseus)
• Hermia: 


  in love with Lysander
• Egeus:


  A nobleman, Hermia‘s father
• Helena:


  In love with Demetrius
• Lysander:


  Young nobleman, Athenian youth
• Demetrius:


  Young nobleman, Athenian youth
• Philostrate:


  Master of the Revels at Theseus’s court
• Oberon:


  King of the fairies
• Titania:


  Queen of the fairies
• Puck:


  Oberon’s jester and attendant
• Peasblossom, Cobweb, Moth, Mustardseed:

  Fairies attending on Titania and Bottom
• Peter Quince: 


  A carpenter (Prologue in the play of ‘Pyramus and Thisbe’)
• Nick Bottom:


  A weaver (Pyramus)
• Francis Flute: 


  A bellows-mender (Thisbe)
• Tom Snout: 


  A tinker (Wall)
• Robin Starveling:


  A tailor (Moonshine)
• Snug:


  A joiner (Lion)
• What does the word “loam” most likely refer?

  Rich soil
• What does the word “disdain” mean?


  Scorn