A Midsummer Night's Dream

High school (ages 12+)
Art & Creativity

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/a-midsummer-nights-dream

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. Who wrote A Midsummer Night's Dream?William Shakespeare
2. What is the literary genre?Romantic comedy play
3. What is the period of composition?Circa 1595-1596
4. What is A Midsummer Night's Dream about?It is a funny play that mixes love, fairies, and a group of amateur actors in a forest.
5. Who are the four young lovers in the play?Hermia, Lysander, Helena, and Demetrius are the four Athenian youths whose love stories get tangled.

Meta-theatricality: Aspects of a play that draw attention to its nature as a performance or drama.
Foreshadowing: A literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story.
Allusion: An indirect reference to a person, place, event, or literary work that the author assumes the reader will recognize.