Shakespeare
The Fault in Our Stars
Language Features
Potluck
100

This famous playwright wrote Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and Hamlet.

Who is William Shakespeare?

100

This is the name of the girl who brutally dumped Isaac. 

Who is Monica?

100

This is a comparison using “like” or “as” is called this.

What is a simile?

100

This is how many different elements make up water.

What is two? (hydrogen and oxygen)

200

In Romeo and Juliet, these two families are sworn enemies.

Who are the Capulets and Monatgues?

200

This is the name of John Green's famous brother.

Who is Hank Green?

200

This is giving human qualities to a non-human thing.

What is personification?

200

This is how many kilometres are in 4 miles.

What is 6.43738km?

300

“To be or not to be” is a line from this Shakespearean tragedy.

What is Hamlet?

300

When Augustus calls his unlit cigarette a “metaphor,” this is the idea about control he trying to express.

What is keeping danger close without letting it have power over him?

300

Identify the technique: “The moon watched silently as the soldiers marched.”

What is personification?

300

In Mulan, “Reflection” shows her struggling with this.

What is her identity and the conflict between duty and self-expression.

400

Shakespeare’s plays are usually divided into three genres: comedies, histories, and these.

What are tragedies?

400

This is why An Imperial Affliction, ends “in the middle of a sentence”?

What is it mirrors the uncertainty and abruptness of life and death?

400

In persuasive writing, this is how emotive language influences an audience.

What is it appeals to their feelings and values, prompting empathy or action?

400

This country is geographically opposite to New Zealand.

What is Spain?

500

In Macbeth, this character’s ambition and manipulation lead Macbeth to murder the king.

Who is Lady Macbeth?

500

The novel’s title comes from a line inspired by Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. What does it suggest about fate?

That fate (“the fault”) lies not in the stars but in ourselves / people’s lives are shaped by choices, not destiny.

500

This is how contrast (or juxtaposition) can be used to highlight a theme?

What is by placing opposites side by side, it emphasizes differences and deepens the reader’s understanding of conflict or irony.

500

Why is Aaron Burr famous?

What is he shot Alexander Hamilton?
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