English 2 Spring Final

FANBOYS

• coordinating conjunctions that join two complete thoughts into one sentence.

• stands for, “for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so”

SWABIs

• subordinating conjunctions that join two complete thought into one sentence.

• stands for, “since, when, after, because, if”

THAMOs

• conjunctive adverbs that show the relationship between two complete thoughts

• stands for, “Therefore, however, also, meanwhile, otherwise”

Comma splices

grammatical error where 2 independent clauses are joined by a comma

fragments

an incomplete sentence punctuated as if it was complete

semicolons

used to connect larger ideas

MLA parenthetical citations

(Authors last name pg#)

signal phrase

Title of book, author, statement: In the book NightI, Eliezer Weisel describes, “…”

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

play by William Shakespeare

Puck

AKA Robin Goodfellow, Oberon’s jester, fairy who loves to play pranks on mortals

Oberon

king of the fairies, at odds with his wife, Titania, because she refuses to reliquish control of a young Indian prince whom he wants for a knight. Oberon’s desire for revenge on Titania leads him to send Puck to obtain the love-potion flower.

Titania

Queen of the fairies, resists her husband’s desire of the Indian prince and is given a potion that makes her fall in love with Nick Bottom.

Lysander

A young man of Athens, in love with Hermia. His relationship with Hermia invokes the theme of love’s difficulty: he cannot marry her openly because Egeus, her father, wishes her to wed Demetrius, but Lysander and Hermia run away into the forest and then Lysander falls in love with Helena because of a love potion

Demetrius

A young man of Athens, initially in love with Hermia and ultimately in love with Helena.

Hermia

Egeus’s daughter, a young woman of Athens. She’s in love with Lysander and is a childhood friend of Helena. As a result of the fairie’s mischief with Oberon’s love potion, both Lysander and Demetrius suddenly fall in love with Helen. Self-concioud about her short stature, Hermia suspects that Helena has wooed the men with her height. By morning, however, Puck sorted things out and restored Lysander’s love for Hermia is restored.

Helena

A young woman of Athens, in over with Demetries. She was once engaged to Demetrius but then he fell in love with Hermia.

Theseus

Duke of Athens, engaged to Hippolyta. Theseus represents power and order throughout the play.

Nick Bottom

The overconfident weaver chosen to play Pyramus in the craftmen’s play for Theseus’s marriage celebration. He is transformed into a donkey by Puck and Titania falls in love with him

Egeus

Hermia’s father, who brings his complaint about Hermia wanting to marry Lysander to Theseus.

Hippolyta

engaged to Theseus

Peter Quince

Carpenter and is in charge of putting on a play for Theseus’s marriage.

Francis Flute

The man chosen to play Thisbe for the play

Robin Starveling, Tom Snout, Snug

other people in the play for the marriage celebration

prose versus poetry

Prose is everyday language written in paragraphs, poetry is written in lines and has intentional rhythm.

The play within A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Pyramus and Thisbe

Love-in-idlenss

flower when its nectar is applied to the eyelids of a sleeping person, causes them to fall in love with the first person they see after waking

oxymoron

figure of speech that pairs 2 contradictory or opposing words together: Deafening silence, bittersweet

figurative language

the use of words or phrases that deviate from their literal definitions to add creative flair, deepen meaning, or evoke strong emotions

prologue

a short opening section of a book or play that establishes context, sets the tone, or introduces background backstory before the main narrative begins

epilogue

a concluding section at the end of a story, play, or book that serves to bring closure, reveal the finall fates or characters

irony

diction

ethos

pathos

logos

personification

EBSCOhost

MLA format

Night*