VOCABULARY - A Midsummer Night's Dream Act I Part I: Using Prior Knowledge and Contextual Clues Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence. Use any you can find in the sentence combined with your prior knowledge, and write what you think the underlined words mean on the lines provided. 1. With cunning has thou filched my daughter's heart, Turned her obedience, which is due to me, To stubborn harshness. 2. Either to die the death, or to abjure Forever the society of men. 3. A good persuasion. 4. I have a widow aunt, a dowager Of great revenue, and she hath no child. 5. Tomorrow when Phoebe doth behold Her silver visage in the watery Decking with liquid pearl the bladed grass, A time that lovers' flights doth still conceal, Through Athens' gates have we devised to steal. 6. Things base and vile, holding not quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. 7. So the boy Love is perjured everywhere: For ere Demetrius looked on Hermia's eyne, He hailed down oaths that he was only mine; 8. Marry, our play is The most lamentable comedy, and most cruel death of Pyramus and Thisby. 9. You may do it extempore, for it is nothing but roaring. 10. I grant you, friends, if you should fright the ladies out of their wits, they would have no more discretion but to hang us. Act I - Part II: Determining the Meaning
VOCABULARY - A Midsummer Night's Dream Act I Part I: Using Prior Knowledge and Contextual Clues Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence. Use any you can find in the sentence combined with your prior knowledge, and write what you think the underlined words mean on the lines provided. 1. With cunning has thou filched my daughter's heart, Turned her obedience, which is due to me, To stubborn harshness. 2. Either to die the death, or to abjure Forever the society of men. 3. A good persuasion. 4. I have a widow aunt, a dowager Of great revenue, and she hath no child. 5. Tomorrow when Phoebe doth behold Her silver visage in the watery Decking with liquid pearl the bladed grass, A time that lovers' flights doth still conceal, Through Athens' gates have we devised to steal. 6. Things base and vile, holding not quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. 7. So the boy Love is perjured everywhere: For ere Demetrius looked on Hermia's eyne, He hailed down oaths that he was only mine; 8. Marry, our play is The most lamentable comedy, and most cruel death of Pyramus and Thisby. 9. You may do it extempore, for it is nothing but roaring. 10. I grant you, friends, if you should fright the ladies out of their wits, they would have no more discretion but to hang us. Act I - Part II: Determining the Meaning