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"Four days

will quickly dream away the time...” (Foreshadowing, Personification

"May all to Athens back again repair

,/And think no more of this night's accidents/But as the fierce vexation of a dream." (Oberon) (Metaphor) and Recurring motif

"What visions have I seen!

/Methought I was enamoured of an ass." (Titania) Irony - she is married to an actual ass

"Are you sure that we are awake?

It seems to me that yet we sleep, we dream." Paradox - putting two opposites side by side blurs the line of reality and fantasy

"I have had a most rare vision.

I have had a dream...Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream...Methought I was— and methought I had —" ("Bottom's Dream")

“a midsummer nights dream”

Alludes to a Midsummer Night’s Eve — a time traditionally linked to magic, fairies, and mystical happenings in folklore.

The course

of true love never did run smooth." (Lysander) Metaphor

"Things base and

vile, holding no quantity,/Love can transpose to form and dignity." Personification

"Love looks not with the eyes

but with the mind./And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind." Personification

"I am your spaniel

; and, Demetrius,/The more you beat me will fawn on you" Metaphor

"What angel

wakes me from my flowery bed? irony

"And yet, to say the truth,

reason and love keep little company together nowadays" (Bottom) Personification

"Lovers and madmen have such seethings brains

/..,The lunatic, the lover, and the poet/Are of imagination all compact." Listing

"If we shadows have offended,

/Think but this, and all is mended; /That you have but slumbered here/While these visions did appear;/And this weak and idle theme, /No more yielding but a dream." (metatheatre)

"Call you me "fair"?

That "fair" again unsay./Demetrius loves your fair. O happy fair!" Anaphora

"The more I love,

the more he hateth me." Anaphora

"For ere Demetrius looked on Hermia's eyne,

/He hailed down oaths that he was only mine./ And when this hail from Hermia felt, /So he dissolved, and showers of oaths did melt." Metaphor

"My heart to her

but as guest-wise sojourned/And now to Helena it is home returned" Metaphor

"Will you rent our ancient love asunder,

/To join with men in scorning your poor friend? /It is not friendly, 'tis not maidenly." Metaphor

"...you juggler,

you canker blossom,/You thief of love!" (Hermia) Listing and Diction

"Are you grown so high in his esteem

/Because I am so dwarfish and low? How low am I, thou painted maypole? Speak!" (Hermia) Metaphor

"Our play is….

'The most lamentable comedy and most cruel death of Pyramus and Thisbe'.” Malapropism

"Let me play…

Thusbe too. I'll speak in a monstrous little voice: "Thisne, Thisne!" Malapropism

Let me play the lion too...

I will aggravate my voice so that I will roar you as gently as any sucking dove" Malapropism

"I see their knavery…

This is to make an ass of me..." Pun

"Thus die I,

thus, thus, thus! [Stabs himself] /Now I am dead/,Now I am fled;/My soul is in the sky..." Melodrama

"The spring, the summer,

/ the chiding autumn, angry winter change/Their wonted liveries.../And this same progeny of evils comes/From our debate, from our dissension." Listing

"I wooed thee

with my sword/And won thy love doing thee injuries."

"Be advised, fair maid

:/To you your father should be as a god..." (Theseus) Simile

"...look you arm yourself/

To fit your fancies to your father's will" (Theseus) Metaphor

"Tarry, rash wanton.

Am I not thy lord?" Rhetorical Question

"Why should Titania

cross her Oberon?/I do but beg a little changeling boy..." Rhetorical Question

"Your wrongs do set a scandal

on my sex!/We cannot fight for love, as men may do"

"And she,

sweet lady, dotes,/Devoutly dotes, dotes in idolatry/Upon this spotted and inconstant man." (Lysander) (worship)

"Thou art as wise

as thou art beautiful."

"And for her sake do I rear up the boy;

/And for her sake I will not part with him." (anaphora)

"I wot not by what power/

(But by some power it is), my love to Hermia,/melted as the snow."

"Thou shalt not from this grove

/Till I torment thee for this injury"

"And now I have the boy,

I will undo/This hateful imperfection of her eyes."

"These are

the forgeries of jealousy"

"What , jealous Oberon? (Rhetorical question)

Fairies, skip hence./ I have forsworn his bed and his company."(Imperative)

"Set your heart at rest

/The fairyland buys not the child from me."

"A sweet Athenian lady is in love/

With a disdainful youth; anoint his eyes.../Thou shalt know the man by the Athenian garments he hath on"