English JeopardyKing LearBegin

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Killed while gouging Glocesters eyesBW 100Answer

Who is Cornwall?BW 100

Promised to marry two different sistersBW 200Answer

Who is Edmund?BW 200

Aside from a storm, what the tempest representsBW 300Answer

What is the raging in Lears mind?BW 300

Maimed man, feared would bring sympathizers to Lears defenseBW 400Answer

Who is Gloucester?BW 400

Refused to marry Cordelia without a dowryBW 500Answer

Who is Burgundy?BW 500

A rhetorical figure expressing comparison or likeness that directly compares two objects through some connective word such as like or asVW 100Answer

What is a simile?VW 100

An extended speech given by one character. The other characters are aware of what is being said.VW 200Answer

What is a monologue?VW 200

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.VW 300Answer

What is a soliloquy?VW 300

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.VW 400Answer

What is an aside?VW 400

Repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables.VW 500Answer

What is an alliteration?VW 500

Banished DaughterSC 100Answer

Who is Cordelia?SC 100

Sets up brotherSC 200Answer

Who is Edmund?SC 200

Acted like a crazy person to avoid detectionSC 300Answer

Who is Edgar?SC 300

Had a lord blinded for trying to assist her fatherSC 400Answer

Who is Regan?SC 400

Plotted to kill husbandSC 500Answer

Who is Goneril?SC 500

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Concentrated language consisting of rhyme and soundAnswerOE 200

What is poetry?OE 200

The name for a syllable grouping in poetryOE 400Answer

What is a foot?OE 400

Metrical foot consisting of a stressed sound followed by an unstressed soundOE 600Answer

What is an iamb?OE 600

Five iambs per lineOE 800Answer

What is iambic pentameter?OE 800

Unrhymed iambic pentameterOE 1000Answer

What is blank verse?OE 1000

A character that has a reversal of fortune, causing extreme suffering; however, endures and recognizes his/her consequences.TT 200Answer

What is a tragic hero?TT 200

The tragic hero of King LearTT 400Answer

Who is King Lear?TT 400

A sudden understandingTT 600Answer

What is an epiphany?TT 600

A purging of emotionsTT 800Answer

What is a catharsis?TT 800

Concept in medieval and ancient philosophy referring to the capricious nature of fateTT 1000Answer

What is the Wheel of Fortune?TT 1000

_______ will come of _______: speak again.WM 200Answer

Nothing will come of nothing: speak again.WM 200

I am a man more ______ against than _______WM 400Answer

I am a man more sinned against than sinningWM 400

Thou shouldst not have been ___ till thou hadst been ____.WM 600Answer

Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.WM 600

Now, gods, stand up for ________!WM 800Answer

Now, gods, stand up for bastards!WM 800

O, let me kiss that hand!

KING LEAR: Let me wipe it first; it smells of _________.WM 1000Answer

O, let me kiss that hand!

KING LEAR: Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality.WM 1000

The Story Within A StoryFinalJeopardyQuestionCategoryRound2Round1

A character who contrasts with another character in order to highlight particular qualities in the firstAnswerFinalJeopardyQuestion

What is a foil?FinalJeopardyTitle