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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A peek at what's on the board — 6 categories and one sample clue from each. Answers stay hidden until you open them, so the game still works.
The Montague son who falls in love.
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Romeo
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The Italian city where the play is set.
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Verona
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The main theme — instant, all-consuming.
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Love (and love vs. hate)
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'O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou ___?'
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Romeo
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Number of acts in the play.
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5
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A long speech by a single character alone on stage.
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Soliloquy
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Board content
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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