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Shakespeare Starter Pack

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A hard-level review of Shakespeare’s plays, language, devices, quotes, and stage context for high school ELA. Built for Grades 9-12. 25 ready-to-play clues, no prep needed. This is a Grades 9–12 English / ELA review game in a Jeopardy-style format: a teacher puts the board on one screen, teams pick clues by point value, and the class answers out loud — no student devices or accounts needed. Categories: Name That Play, Verse and Meter, Rhetoric and Devices, Lines and Speakers, Globe and Texts.

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  • Name That Play

    Which play follows two star-crossed lovers from feuding families in Verona?

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    Romeo and Juliet

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  • Verse and Meter

    What meter has five iambs per line in Shakespeare’s verse?

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    iambic pentameter

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  • Rhetoric and Devices

    What do we call a speech to the audience revealing inner thoughts when alone?

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    soliloquy

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  • Lines and Speakers

    Who says, "O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?"

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    Juliet

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  • Globe and Texts

    What were the cheapest standing spectators in the yard at the Globe called?

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    groundlings

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Name That Play

$100 — Which play follows two star-crossed lovers from feuding families in Verona?
Romeo and Juliet
$200 — Which tragedy shows a Scottish thane who murders his king after a prophecy?
Macbeth
$300 — In which play does the Prince of Denmark seek to avenge his father’s ghost?
Hamlet
$400 — Which tragedy features a Venetian general manipulated into jealousy by Iago?
Othello
$500 — Which comedy begins with a shipwrecked twin named Viola in Illyria?
Twelfth Night

Verse and Meter

$100 — What meter has five iambs per line in Shakespeare’s verse?
iambic pentameter
$200 — What do we call unrhymed iambic pentameter?
blank verse
$300 — What term names two consecutive rhyming lines forming a unit?
rhyming couplet
$400 — What is an extra unstressed syllable at a line’s end called?
feminine ending
$500 — What do we call a pause within a line, often marked by punctuation?
caesura

Rhetoric and Devices

$100 — What do we call a speech to the audience revealing inner thoughts when alone?
soliloquy
$200 — What device is a brief comment to the audience unheard by other characters?
aside
$300 — What term describes when the audience knows more than a character does?
dramatic irony
$400 — What is a character’s fatal error or inherent weakness in a tragedy called?
tragic flaw
$500 — What is the moment of critical discovery or recognition in a tragedy called?
anagnorisis

Lines and Speakers

$100 — Who says, "O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?"
Juliet
$200 — Who says, "Et tu, Brute?"
Julius Caesar
$300 — Who says, "Out, damned spot! out, I say!"
Lady Macbeth
$400 — Who says, "The lady doth protest too much, methinks."
Gertrude
$500 — Who says, "If you prick us, do we not bleed?"
Shylock

Globe and Texts

$100 — What were the cheapest standing spectators in the yard at the Globe called?
groundlings
$200 — What was the open-air London playhouse most associated with Shakespeare?
The Globe
$300 — What is the 1623 collected edition of his plays commonly called?
First Folio
$400 — What royal office licensed plays for public performance in that era?
Master of the Revels
$500 — What were early small-format play printings before the Folio called?
quartos

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