WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Read the extract and answer the following question.
As wagish boys in a game themselves forswear;
So the boy Love is perjured everywhere;
For ere Demetrius looked on Hermia’s eyne,
He hailed down oaths that he was only mine;
And when this hail some heat from Hermia felt,
So he dissolved and showers of oaths did melt
The speaker has just said farewell to
- A. Helena
- B. Demetrius
- C. Hermia
- D. Lysander
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Read the extract and answer the following question.
As wagish boys in a game themselves forswear;
So the boy Love is perjured everywhere;
For ere Demetrius looked on Hermia’s eyne,
He hailed down oaths that he was only mine;
And when this hail some heat from Hermia felt,
So he dissolved and showers of oaths did melt
The speaker’s mood stems from
- A. being rejected by the lover
- B. having to go into the forest
- C. wanting to punish Hermia
- D. meeting with Hermia
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Read the extract and answer the following question.
As wagish boys in a game themselves forswear;
So the boy Love is perjured everywhere;
For ere Demetrius looked on Hermia’s eyne,
He hailed down oaths that he was only mine;
And when this hail some heat from Hermia felt,
So he dissolved and showers of oaths did melt
The speech shows that the speaker is
- A. high spirits
- B. dissappointed
- C. excited
- D. in a bad mood
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Read the extract and answer the following question.
As wagish boys in a game themselves forswear;
So the boy Love is perjured everywhere;
For ere Demetrius looked on Hermia’s eyne,
He hailed down oaths that he was only mine;
And when this hail some heat from Hermia felt,
So he dissolved and showers of oaths did melt
The speaker is
- A. Egeus
- B. Hermia
- C. Demetrius
- D. Helena
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Read the extract below and answer the following question:
The boat nodded in timing with the gentle
Bobbing of the float on the unhurrying
Tide as the angler awaited the bite and
Pull of a salmon
The dominant literary device used in the extract is
- A. parallelism
- B. apostrophe
- C. personification
- D. antithesis
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Read the extract below and answer the following question:
The boat nodded in timing with the gentle
Bobbing of the float on the unhurrying
Tide as the angler awaited the bite and
Pull of a salmon
The extract presents the image of a
- A. enough time
- B. bright day
- C. dark night
- D. calm weather
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Read the extract below and answer the following question:
That fallen am I in dark uneven way,
Come, thou gentle day;
For if but once thou show me thy grey light,
I’ll find , and revenge this spite.
After the speech, the speaker
- A. begins to dance
- B. laughs uncontrollably
- C. falls asleep
- D. starts crying
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Read the extract below and answer the following question:
That fallen am I in dark uneven way,
Come, thou gentle day;
For if but once thou show me thy grey light,
I’ll find , and revenge this spite.
Come, thou gentle day illustrates
- A. apostrophe
- B. irony
- C. paradox
- D. euphemism
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Read the extract below and answer the following question:
That fallen am I in dark uneven way,
Come, thou gentle day;
For if but once thou show me thy grey light,
I’ll find , and revenge this spite.
The speaker is in
- A. the woods
- B. his apartment
- C. a street
- D. the palace
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Read the extract below and answer the following question:
That fallen am I in dark uneven way,
Come, thou gentle day;
For if but once thou show me thy grey light,
I’ll find , and revenge this spite.
The speaker is addressing
- A. Helena
- B. Hermia
- C. Demetrius
- D. himself
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Read the extract below and answer the following question:
That fallen am I in dark uneven way,
Come, thou gentle day;
For if but once thou show me thy grey light,
I’ll find , and revenge this spite.
The speaker is
- A. Lysander
- B. Thisbe
- C. Egeus
- D. Tatiana
At the last head count, the population of the school was three thousand is an example of
- A. synechdoche
- B. hyperbole
- C. metonymy
- D. pun
That girl is too young to be put in the family way illustrates
- A. euphemism
- B. hyperbole
- C. oxymoron
- D. paradox
Exaggerating one’s personal features for comic effect is
- A. caricature
- B. lampoon
- C. contrast
- D. satire
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Use the following extract to answer the question that follows:
Lie bath rid his prologue like a rough colt: he knows not the stop.
A good moral, my lord: it is not enough to speak, but to speak true.
The character that delivers the prologue is
- A. Snug
- B. Starveling
- C. Snout
- D. Quince
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Use the following extract to answer the question that follows:
Lie bath rid his prologue like a rough colt: he knows not the stop.
A good moral, my lord: it is not enough to speak, but to speak true.
The character that speaks after the speaker is
- A. Lysander
- B. Demetrius
- C. Titania
- D. Hippolyta
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Use the following extract to answer the question that follows:
Lie bath rid his prologue like a rough colt: he knows not the stop.
A good moral, my lord: it is not enough to speak, but to speak true.
it is not enough to speak, but to speak true illustrates
- A. parable
- B. epitaph
- C. wisecrack
- D. epigram
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Use the following extract to answer the question that follows:
Lie bath rid his prologue like a rough colt: he knows not the stop.
A good moral, my lord: it is not enough to speak, but to speak true.
The character that speaks before the speaker
- A. Demetrius
- B. Theseus
- C. Pyramus
- D. Hippolyta
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Use the following extract to answer the question that follows:
Lie bath rid his prologue like a rough colt: he knows not the stop.
A good moral, my lord: it is not enough to speak, but to speak true.
The speaker is
- A. Hippolyta
- B. Lysander
- C. Pyramus
- D. Bottom
A dramatic performance with scenes played by body movements or gestures without words known as
- A. comedy
- B. pantomime
- C. panegyric
- D. melodrama
Letters, journals and diaries are examples of
- A. faction
- B. meta-fiction
- C. fiction
- D. non-fiction