A Midsummer Night's Dream Acts I and II Lines

Question 1

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”

Figurative Language & Character

Answer 1

allusion

Helena

Question 2

“I’ll follow thee and make a heaven out of hell,
To die by your hand which I love so well.”

Figurative Language & Character

Answer 2

rhyming couplet

Helena

Question 3

“Wherefore was I to this keen mockery born?
When at your hands did I deserve this scorn?
Is’t not enough, is’t not enough, you man,
That I did never, no, nor never can,
Deserve a sweet look from Demetrius’ eye,
But you must flout my insufficiency?”

Character

Answer 3

Helen

Question 4

“To whom you are but as a form in wax
By him imprinted and within his power
To leave the figure or disfigure it.”

Figurative Language & Character

Answer 4

metaphor

-Theseus (talking about Hermia-she should be shaped)

Question 5

“Tomorrow night, when Phoebe doth behold
Her silver visage in a watery glass….”

Figurative Language & Character

Answer 5

allusion

Lysander

Question 6

“We will meet, and there we may rehearse most obscenely and courageously.”

Figurative Language & Character

Answer 6

malapropism (“obscenely”)

Bottom

Question 7

“Yet marked I where the bold of Cupid fell”

Figurative Language & Character

Answer 7

Allusion

Oberon