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Romeo and Juliet

9th grade Shakespeare unit · Medium · 20-25 min

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This board helps players review Literature · William Shakespeare through a Jeopardy-style game format on Kleveroo. It includes categories such as Characters, Plot Points, Themes, Famous Lines, Form & Trivia. It is useful for classroom review, team trivia, family game night, test prep, and group play.

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  • Characters

    The Montague son who falls in love.

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    Romeo

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  • Plot Points

    The Italian city where the play is set.

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    Verona

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  • Themes

    The main theme — instant, all-consuming.

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    Love (and love vs. hate)

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  • Famous Lines

    'O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou ___?'

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    Romeo

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  • Form & Trivia

    Number of acts in the play.

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    5

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  • Literary Devices

    A long speech by a single character alone on stage.

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    Soliloquy

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Characters

$100 — The Montague son who falls in love.
Romeo
$200 — The 13-year-old Capulet daughter.
Juliet
$300 — Romeo's quick-witted, joking friend killed by Tybalt.
Mercutio
$400 — Juliet's hot-tempered cousin.
Tybalt
$500 — The friar who marries Romeo and Juliet in secret.
Friar Lawrence

Plot Points

$100 — The Italian city where the play is set.
Verona
$200 — The two feuding families.
Montagues and Capulets
$300 — Where Romeo and Juliet first meet.
The Capulet ball / masquerade
$400 — Romeo is banished after killing this character.
Tybalt
$500 — How Juliet dies.
Stabs herself with Romeo's dagger

Themes

$100 — The main theme — instant, all-consuming.
Love (and love vs. hate)
$200 — The ancient grudge between families.
Feud / hatred
$300 — The role chance plays in the lovers' deaths.
Fate / fortune
$400 — The conflict between youthful passion and adult reason.
Youth vs. age
$500 — The tension Romeo and Juliet face from their families.
Individual vs. society

Famous Lines

$100 — 'O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou ___?'
Romeo
$200 — 'A pair of ___ lovers take their life.' (Prologue)
Star-crossed
$300 — 'A rose by any other ___ would smell as sweet.'
Name
$400 — 'Parting is such ___ sorrow.'
Sweet
$500 — 'For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her ___.'
Romeo

Form & Trivia

$100 — Number of acts in the play.
5
$200 — The play opens with this 14-line poetic form.
Sonnet (the Prologue)
$300 — The rhythmic meter Shakespeare wrote in.
Iambic pentameter
$400 — Approximate year written.
1594-1596
$500 — Genre of the play.
Tragedy

Literary Devices

$100 — A long speech by a single character alone on stage.
Soliloquy
$200 — When the audience knows something a character does not (e.g., Juliet isn't dead).
Dramatic irony
$300 — A comparison without 'like' or 'as' — 'Juliet is the sun'.
Metaphor
$400 — Hints of future events — like 'star-crossed' in the prologue.
Foreshadowing
$500 — Witty banter, especially between Mercutio, Romeo and Benvolio.
Pun / wordplay

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