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English Jeopardy
King LearBegin
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Vocabu…What?
Round 1
Round2
Killed while gouging Glocester’s eyes
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Who is Cornwall?
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Promised to marry two different sisters
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Who is Edmund?
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Aside from a storm, what the tempest
represents
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What is the raging in Lear’s mind?
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Maimed man, feared would bring sympathizers
to Lear’s defense
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Who is Gloucester?
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Refused to marry Cordelia without a dowry
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Who is Burgundy?
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A rhetorical figure expressing comparison or likeness that directly
compares two objects through some connective word such as
‘like’ or ‘as’
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What is a simile?
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An extended speech given by one character.
The other characters are aware of what is being
said.
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What is a monologue?
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A speech given by a character alone on stage or apart from the other
characters. It is used to summarize actions, foreshadow events, reveal thoughts (or emotions), and clarify
emotions. The other characters do not hear what the character is saying.
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What is a soliloquy?
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In drama, a sort of speech spoken by a character in an undertone, or directly, to the audience. It is not meant to be heard by the other
characters on stage but only by the audience.
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Answer
What is an aside?
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Repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of
words or in stressed syllables.
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What is an alliteration?
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Banished Daughter
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Who is Cordelia?
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“Sets up” brother
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Who is Edmund?
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Acted like a crazy person to avoid
detection
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Who is Edgar?
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Had a lord blinded for trying to assist her father
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Who is Regan?
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Plotted to kill husband
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Who is Goneril?
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Round 2
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Concentrated language consisting of rhyme
and sound
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What is poetry?
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The name for a syllable grouping in poetry
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What is a foot?
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Metrical foot consisting of a stressed sound
followed by an unstressed sound
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What is an iamb?
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Five iambs per line
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What is iambic pentameter?
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Unrhymed iambic pentameter
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What is blank verse?
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A character that has a reversal of fortune, causing extreme suffering; however,
endures and recognizes his/her consequences.
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What is a tragic hero?
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The tragic hero of King Lear
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Who is King Lear?
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A sudden understanding
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What is an epiphany?
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A purging of emotions
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What is a catharsis?
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Concept in medieval and ancient philosophy
referring to the capricious nature of
fate
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What is the Wheel of Fortune?
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_______ will come of _______: speak again.
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Nothing will come of nothing: speak again.
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I am a man more ______ against than
_______
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I am a man more sinned against than
sinning
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Thou shouldst not have been ___ till thou hadst
been ____.
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Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst
been wise.
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Now, gods, stand up for ________!
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Now, gods, stand up for bastards!
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“O, let me kiss that hand!
KING LEAR: Let me wipe it first; it smells of _________.”
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“O, let me kiss that hand!
KING LEAR: Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality.”
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The Story Within A Story
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Round2
Round1
A character who contrasts with another character in
order to highlight particular qualities in the first
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What is a foil?
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