MND Vocabulary Flashcards

Which character uses the word “reveling” in Act 1, Scene 1, line 19, and how do they use it?

• Theseus uses this word to show:

  • Excitedness for wedding

  • Joyful atmosphere

  • Connected to wedding

Which character uses the word “feigning” in Act 1, Scene 1, line 31, and how do they use it?

• Egeus uses this word to show:

  • Lysander has been accused of singing to Hermia wth a soft voice

  • And showing deceitful love

  • Third meaning, deceitful could also mean affectionate.

• Could also be interpreted as Lysander is merely showing his affection for Hermia.

Which character uses the word “cloister” in Act 1, Scene 1, line 71, and how do they use it?

• Theseus uses this word to show:

  • Hermia being shut away from normal society

  • Alternative to death if not married Demetrius

  • Highlights patriarchal control

Which character uses the word “extempore” in Act 1, Scene 2, line 69, and how do they use it?

• Peter Quince, a carpenter, uses this word to say that:

  • Snug does not need to practice his lines, and can wing it, to assure Snug.

  • Snug plays a lion, and his lines are but roaring.

Which character uses the word “discharge” in Act 1, Scene 2, line 93, and how do they use it?

• Nick Bottom, a weaver, uses this word to say that:

  • He is asking Pyramus in which “colour of beard” a.k.a costume suits his role.

  • He asks this after he asks to play all the roles in the play, and Peter Quince tells him to only play Pyramus, which sparks this question.

  • Peter Quince says that he can choose his beard, and Nick Bottom begins to tell him all his possible choices, triggering the usage of the word “discharge”.

Which character uses the word “beguile” in Act 2, Scene 1, line 45, and how do they use it?

• Puck / Robin Goodfelllow uses this word to explain that:

  • He is very silly, and

  • He tricks people to please Oberon, the Fairy King.

Which character uses the word “progeny” in Act 2, Scene 1, line 115, and how do they use it?

• Titania, the Fairy Queen, uses this word to explain that:

  • The argument between Titania and Oberon is causing a disruption in the natural world.

  • They are arguing about a changeling little Indian boy.

Which character uses the word “promontory”, in Act 2, Scene 1, line 149, and how do they use it?

• Oberon, the Fairy King, uses this word to explain:

  • Where he was (a high-point of land projecting into a sea) when he saw Cupid shooting an arrow into a flower (love juice).

Which character uses the word “prologue” in Act 3, Scene 1, line 16/17, and how do they use it?

• Bottom uses this word to say that:

  • He will talk before the show.

  • He will discuss that the violence and scare is not real, to assure the audience.

Which character uses the word “entreat’” in Act 3, Scene 1, line 41/37, and how do they use it?

• Bottom uses this word to say that:

  • Snug should request (entreat) the audience to know that they should not fear, because he is not a real lion.

Which character uses the word “knavery” in Act 3, Scene 1, line 113/107, and how do they use it?

• Bottom uses this word to explain that:

  • He thinks that the Mechanicals are tricking, pranking him by running away from him, however:

  • Bottom’s head has actually turned into a donkey head, and:

  • They have been scared by the transformation.

Which character uses the word “rebuke” in Act 3, Scene 2, line 43 and how do they use it?

• Demetrius uses this word to ask, before being under the love potion:

  • Why Hermia does not show romantic appeal to him, using the word rebuke as why she disapproves him.

Which character uses the word “chide” in Act 3, Scene 2, line 45, and how do they use it?

• Hermia uses this word to explain that she thinks:

  • Demetrius has harmed Lysander, and therefore disapproves him, because:

  • Hermia cannot find Lysander after she woke up from her serpent eating heart dream.

Which character uses the word “derision” in Act 3, Scene 2, line 123, and how do they use it?

• Lysander uses this word to say, while under the love potion:

  • He is not faking his love for Helena, because

  • Ridicule does not come with tears.

  • Helena believes that Lysander is ridiculing him by “pretending to love her”.

Which character uses the word “emnity” in Act 4, Scene 1, line 148/147, and how do they use it?

• Theseus uses this word to explain how:

  • He believed that amongst the four lovers were two enemies, because

  • He did not know about Demetrius being under the influence of the love potion.

  • The four lovers are now stable.

  • He uses the word “emnity” like “why is there no emnity?”