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Drama Excerpt
forsooth: indeed; used to express surprise or indignation
ACTIVITY 3.3
My notes
Interpret the Text using Close Reading
Learning Targets
• Apply understanding of how dramatic scripts are structured to comprehend the text.
• Read closely and annotate the text to find the language resources an author uses to establish character, setting, and incident.
Read and annotate
Read the passage as a group. Annotate the text as you read.
■ Use the My Notes area to write questions or ideas you have about the story. ■ Underline the insults the women give.
■ Put stars next to words and phrases that help you “hear” the speaker.
■ Circle unknown words and phrases.
Dream Act 3, Scene 2, Lines 282–306
by William Shakespeare
HERMIA Oh me! you juggler! you canker-blossom!
You thief of love! What, have you come by night
And stolen my love’s heart from him?
HELENA Fine, i’faith!
285 Have you no modesty, no maiden shame,
No touch of bashfulness? What, will you tear Impatient answers from my gentle tongue? Fie, fie! you counterfeit, you puppet, you!
HERMIA Puppet? Why so? Ay, that way goes the game. 290 Now, I perceive that she hath made compare
Between our statures; she hath urged her height; And with her personage, her tall personage,
Her height, forsooth, she hath prevail’d with him. And are you grown so high in his esteem;
295 Because I am so dwarfish and so low?
How low am I, thou painted maypole? speak;
How low am I? I am not yet so low
But that my nails can reach unto thine eyes.
from
A Midsummer
Night’s
172 SpringBoard® English Language Development grade 8
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