English final

Theseus

Duke of Athens

Hipplolyta

Queen of the amazons and marries Theseus

Egeus

Hermias Father

Hermia

In love with Lysander

Lysander

In love with Hermia

Demetrius

first loves Hermia; then marries Helena

Helena

In love with demetrius

Oberon

King of Fairies

Titania

Queen of Fairies

Puck

Mischievous fairy; servant of Oberon

Bottom

A mechanical transformed into a donkey

Peter Quince

Leader of Mechanicals

What are the themes

Love is unpredictable, appearance vs reality, dreams vs reality, freedom vs law, the foolishness of love

What does the forest symbolize

Freedom, chaos, and transformation

what does the love potion symbolize

irrational and uncontrollable love

what does pyramus and thisbe symbolize

a comic mirror of the main love story

Noun

person, place, thing or idea (ex: dog, home, happiness, teacher)

verb

action or state of being (ex: hear, sit, dance)

adjective

describes a noun (ex: purple, big, fat)

adverbs

describes verbs, adjective or adverbs; usually end in -ly (ex: then, there, quietly, now). Can describe time, place and direction

pronoun

he, she, they, them, he, her

preposition

shows relationship of time or movement (ex: in, out, by, under, before, after)

conjuction

joint words or clauses; connects words (ex: and, but, yet, for, after)

interjection

expresses emotion (ex: ow, yay, wow, ugh)

article

a, an, the

proper noun

specific person or place (example: specific place like Folsom, specific person like John)

similie

compares with like or as (ex. She eats like a dog, Hes as fat as a pig)

Metaphor

direct comparison (ex: They are lightning fast)

personification

giving human traits to non-human things (ex, the door screamed open, the wind whispered)

alliteration

repetition of beginning sounds (ex: she sells seashells by the sea shore)

onomatopoeia

words that imitate sound (ex: boom, crash, sizzle)

paradox

a contradiction (ex: less is more, save money by spending it)

symbolism

an object representing something deeper (ex: dove for peace, skull for death)

Imagery

sense, sigh, sound, taste, smell, touch

Subject

who or what the sentence is about

direct object

what receives the action (example: She reads the book, book is the direct object)

Indirect object

who or what receives the direct object (ex: she gave him the book, him is the indirect object; I bought my sister clothes, I and sister are the indirect objects)