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.
- Grades 9–12 English / ELA review
- Whole-class review on one shared screen
- Test or quiz prep
- Team-vs-team practice in class
A peek at what's on the board — 5 categories and one sample clue from each. Answers stay hidden until you open them, so the game still works.
Which play follows two star-crossed lovers from feuding families in Verona?
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Romeo and Juliet
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What meter has five iambs per line in Shakespeare’s verse?
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iambic pentameter
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What do we call a speech to the audience revealing inner thoughts when alone?
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soliloquy
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Who says, "O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?"
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Juliet
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What were the cheapest standing spectators in the yard at the Globe called?
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groundlings
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Board content
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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