What if the forest is a living metaphor for the subconscious where logic dissolves into desire in a physical, often animalistic form? Test your knowledge of the Bard’s use of puns, oxymorons and dramatic irony in this A Midsummer Night’s Dream Literary Devices Quiz. Test your academic knowledge of the play’s complex structure.
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MSND Literary Devices Quiz Questions
- When love reverses suddenly because of magic, what device is at work?
- When Puck rhymes lines like “Jack shall have Jill, naught shall go ill,” what device appears?
- The fairies’ blessings at the end use what sound device?
- What device is used when Hermia dreams a serpent eats her heart while Lysander watches?
- When Bottom believes himself capable of playing every part, it’s an example of what device?
- When Demetrius and Lysander both love Helena due to the potion, this creates what?
- When Titania falls for Bottom, what literary device drives the humor?
- When Puck narrates events unseen by other characters, Shakespeare uses what dramatic device?
- The constant confusion of lovers in the woods highlights what recurring motif?
- What device is used when the moon is called a “silver bow new bent in heaven”?
- When the play questions whether events were real or imagined, it uses what device?
- The fairies’ lullaby to Titania employs what device for musical effect?
- When Shakespeare gives human traits to the forest, he uses what device?
- What literary device is most evident in Puck’s line “Lord, what fools these mortals be”?
- What device does Shakespeare use when love is portrayed as both magical and irrational?
- When Hermia and Helena argue about beauty and love, their contrast is an example of what device?
- The love potion in the play primarily represents what literary device?
- When Bottom says “reason and love keep little company,” Shakespeare employs which device?
- The play’s title “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” uses which device to suggest unreality?
- When Shakespeare includes multiple plots that mirror each other, he uses what technique?
- The craftsmen’s play within the play is an example of what device?
- Titania’s speech about nature’s chaos caused by her quarrel with Oberon uses what device?
- When Puck transforms Bottom’s head into that of an ass, this creates what literary effect?
- When Lysander calls Hermia “an Ethiop,” this is an example of what device?
- The recurring contrast between reason and imagination reflects what device?
- “Theseus, Hippolyta, and the lovers’ marriages” represent what narrative structure device?
- When Puck tells the audience the play might have been a dream, what device is used?
- What does the moon symbolize throughout the play?
- When Hermia and Helena’s friendship unravels, Shakespeare uses what device to mirror chaos in love?
- The mechanicals’ exaggerated performance of “Pyramus and Thisbe” uses what device?