Vocabulary review BINGO

Objective: Review the terms you will need to know while reading Shakespeare.

  1. Make a BINGO grid (5 by 5)
  2. Make square pieces to cover the board when the word is called.(You will need about 15)
  3. Mark the center space “Free”
  4. Randomly place the following words:

  1. Alliteration
  2. Allusions
  3. Aside
  4. Tragedy
  5. Comedy
  6. History
  7. Tragic hero
  8. Tragic flaw
  9. Soliloquy
  10. Monologue
  11. Elizabethan English
  12. Irony -
  13. Dramatic Irony -
  14. Verbal irony
  15. Situational irony
  16. Iamb
  17. Pentameter
  18. Iambic pentameter
  19. puns
  20. End-stopped line
  21. Enjambment
  22. Simile
  23. Blank verse
  24. Free verse

  1. Play

Teacher’s notes: It takes at least five to ten minutes for them to make their BINGO boards.

  1. Tragedy -a play that traces the main character’s downfall
  2. Comedy - a play that ends happily and usually contains many humorous elements
  3. History - a play that chronicles the life of an English monarch
  4. Tragic hero - a main character who goes through a series of events that lead to his/her downfall
  5. Tragic flaw - an error in judgment or defect in character—that leads to downfall
  6. Soliloquy - a long speech given by a character while alone on stage to reveal his or her private thoughts or intentions
  7. Aside - a character’s quiet remark to the audience or another character that no one else on stage is supposed to hear
  8. Monologue - a long speech given by one person to an audience
  9. Elizabethan English – Another terms for Early Modern English
  10. Irony - the contrast between appearance and reality
  11. Dramatic Irony - when the reader or audience knows something that one or more of the characters do not know
  12. Verbal irony - when you say one thing and mean another
  13. Situational irony = When the unexpected happens
  14. “iamb” - the combination of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
  15. Pentameter – the recurrence of a metrical foot five times
  16. Iambic pentameter – a format that closely mimics natural speech in which Shakespeare wrote
  17. puns - when homonyms are used for effect
  18. Allusions: a reference to a well-known story in the Bible, Greek/Roman Mythology, or a well-known person
  19. End-stopped line – a line of poetry where punctuation causes a pause at the end
  20. Enjambment – when lines of poetry run together
  21. Alliteration – the repetition of same or similar consonant sounds close together
  22. Simile – a comparison of two unlike things using like or as
  23. Blank verse – unrhymed iambic pentameter
  24. Free verse – poetry without any rhythmical pattern
  1. Play – read out the definitions to the words only. The kids must make the matches by knowing the words. To check for a BINGO, the kids must call back the words.