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Book Summary For A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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  • Common Core alignment to "Reading: Literature and Subject-related Content" is to 3 key phrases: "Particular Topic", "Context" and "Reading Literature". CCSS Alignment Strand Numbers for Specific Grades: Particular Topic: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: 4.6. 5.6, 6.6, 7.6, 8.6, 9-10.6, 11-12.6 Context: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: 2.4a, 3.4a, 4.4a, 5.4a, 6.4a, 7.4a, 8.4a, 9-10.4a, 11-12.4a Reading: Literature: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: RL.2.4, RL.3.4, RL.4.4. RL.5.4, RL.6.4, RL.7.4, RL.8.4, RL.9-10.4, RL.11-12.4 Reading: Informational Text: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: RI.2.4, RI.3.4, RI.4.4. RI.5.4, RI.6.4, RI.7.4, RI.8.4, RI.9-10.4, RI.11-12.4
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An 43 word vocabulary list with definitions for A Midsummer Night’s Dream is arranged by Act.

  • Act I: 10 words
    feigning = pretending; giving a false impression
    prevail = a gain in strength or influence; persistence
    livery = uniform worn by servants in a wealthy household; stabling of livestock for pay
    vantage = superiority in a contest; a strategic advantage
    extenuate = to lessen the seriousness of; mitigate
    leagues = measurement of distance
    Phoebe = Diana, goddess of the moon
    beguiled = to have drawn notice by charm or wiles
    condole = to express sympathetic sorrow

    Act II: 10 words
    pensioners = retainers; bodyguards of the court
    wrath = ire; anger
    wanton = unrestrained, headstrong and bawdy woman
    Perigenia, Aegles, Ariade = women who were conquests of Theseus
    rheumatic = inflammations or pain in muscles, joints or fibrous tissues
    dulcet = sweet to the ear: melodious
    leviathan = large, giant sea monster; whale
    impeach = charge formally with misconduct in office; cast doubt
    griffin = animal with the head and wings of an eagle, the body of a lion
    troth = loyal or pledged faithfulness; betrothal

    Act III: 12 words
    juvenal = youthful; child-like
    mote = speck, small particle
    preposterously = contrary to nature, reason or common sense: absurd
    extort = to obtain by force or threats
    sojourn = stay or visit with
    incorporate = of one body
    entreat = beg; succeed by asking urgently: plead
    spurn = a disdainful rejection; to kick aside
    jowl = the lower jaw; cheek
    derision = scornful or contemptuous ridicule
    recreant = crying for mercy: cowardly, a traitor
    abate = to reduce in degree, amount or intensity: moderate

    Act IV: 4 words
    amiable = generally agreeable with a friendly and sociable disposition
    peck = measurement; a great deal
    bay = bark or call in long deep tones
    sixpence = British coin no longer used and worth half a shilling

    Act V: 7 words
    recorder = instrument like a flute
    crescent = waxing moon
    quell= pit down; suppress; pacify
    palpable = what can be touched or felt: tangible; obvious
    prodigious = extraordinary in bulk, quantity or degree: monstrous
    consecrate= make sacred; to make venerable
    amends = something done or given to make up for a loss or injury

    Links to vocabulary words lists and puzzles for other Shakespeare plays:

    A Midsummer Night’s Dream

    Antony and Cleopatra

    As You Like It

    Julius Caesar

    Hamlet

    King Lear

    Macbeth

    Much Ado About Nothing

    Othello

    Romeo and Juliet

    The Merchant of Venice

    The Taming of the Shrew

    The Winter’s Tale

    Twelfth Night

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