This board helps players review Shakespeare Starter Pack through a Jeopardy-style game format on Kleveroo. It includes categories such as Name That Play, Verse and Meter, Rhetoric and Devices, Lines and Speakers, Globe and Texts. 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 — 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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