HI EVERYONE ! WELCOME TO MY LITERATURE BLOG . AS YOU ALL KNOW DUE TO PANDEMIC WE ARE ALL TRAPPED INSIDE OUR HOMES . SO, WE HAVE ENOUGH TIME TO BE CREATIVE AND PLAY SOME INNOVATIVE INDOOR GAMES RELATED TO LITERATURE. 🙂 I HAVE THOUGHT OF 10 BEST LITERARY GAMES THAT ANYONE CAN CREATE AND PLAY!! 🙂
1 . CROSSWORD PUZZLE
CROSSWORD PUZZLES CAN BE CREATED USING QUESTIONS FRAMED FROM ANY FAMOUS DRAMA OR NOVEL . FOR THIS A TABLE (ROWS AND COLUMNS) SHOULD BE CREATED INTO WHICH LETTERS CAN BE INSERTED. MIND- TICKLING QUESTIONS SHOULD BE FRAMED IN THE DIRECTIONS OF ‘LEFT TO RIGHT‘ AND ‘TOP TO BOTTOM‘
2 . SONGS FROM DRAMAS AND NOVELS
SONGS AND SONNETS FROM DIFFERENT DRAMAS CAN BE COMPILED AND WRITTEN ON PIECES OF PAPER ,ESPECIALLY THE ONES WRITTEN BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE . THE PLAYER WOULD HAVE TO CHOOSE ANY ONE PIECE OF PAPER AND READ OUT THE SONG AND GUESS THE RIGHT NAME OF DRAMA AND THE DRAMATIST.
FOR EXAMPLE
" Mistress mine, where are you roaming?
O, stay and hear; your true love's coming,
That can sing both high and low:
Trip no further, pretty sweeting;
Journeys end in lovers meeting,
Every wise man's son doth know."
THIS STANZA IS FROM TWELFTH NIGHT DRAMA BY SHAKESPEARE
3. PASSING THE PARCEL MUSICAL GAME–
SOME LITERARY QUESTIONS LIKE, NAME OF AUTHOR OF ‘GOD OF SMALL THINGS’, THE SPEAKER OF LINES ‘”FOUL IS FAIR AND FAIR IS FOUL”, FAMOUS QUOTES, NAME OF TWO CHARACTERS OF A FAMOUS NOVEL ETC. CAN BE WRITTEN ON PIECES OF PAPER AND KEPT IN A SMALL BOX. MUSIC CAN BE PLAYED AND THE BOX SHOULD BE PASSED ON FROM ONE PLAYER TO ANOTHER. WHEN THE MUSIC STOPS THE PLAYER HOLDING THE BOX SHOULD OPEN IT AND SAY THE ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS WRITTEN ON CHITS.
4. FILL UP THE POETICAL LINES—-
SOME FAMOUS POETRIES CAN BE WRITTEN ON PAPERS ALONG WITH BLANKS TO BE FILLED UP BY THE PLAYER.
Whose woods these are I think I know.
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He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
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The darkest evening of the year.
THESE STANZAS ARE FROM ‘STOPPING BY WOODS ON A SNOWY EVENING ‘ BY ROBERT FROST. YOU CAN CHOOSE LINES FROM YOUR FAVOURITE POETRIES TO PLAY THIS INTERESTING GAME. 🙂
5. POETRY WRITING CONTEST—-
WHAT CAN BE MORE INTERESTING AND AMUSING THAN A POETRY WRITING CONTEST? WELL , DIFFERENT GENRES AND THEMES CAN BE SELECTED TO PLAY THIS GAME. PLAYERS CAN CHOOSE TO COMPOSE A SONNET , HAIKU, FREE VERSE , ACROSTIC OR A LIMERICK. VARIOUS THEMES AND TOPICS CAN BE SELECTED ( LOVE FOR NATURE, FREEDOM, COMPASSION, FAMILY, VIRTUES, POVERTY, RACISM )
6. THE DICE GAME —-
FOR THIS 6 BOXES ARE REQUIRED . DIFFERENT BOXES SHOULD HAVE DIFFERENT SET OF QUESTIONS WRITTEN ON SMALL PIECES OF PAPER
BOX 1— CAN HAVE QUESTIONS RELATED TO ROMANTIC POETS. BOX 2 –METAPHYSICAL POETS. BOX 3 QUESTIONS FOR METAPHYSICAL POETS . BOX 4– MODERN AGE POETRY QUESTIONS. BOX 5– LITERARY TERMS BOX 6 –QUESTIONS FROM CULTURAL STUDIES. THE PLAYER WOULD THROW THE DICE AND CHOOSE THE SAME NUMBER OF BOX AS THERE IS NUMBER ON DICE. IF THE PLAYER SAYS THE RIGHT ANSWER HE/SHE GETS 5 POINTS FOR IT.
7. AUDIO GAMES —
THE BEGINNING LINES OF FAMOUS NOVELS ARE QUITE ENCHANTING AND IT CAN BE USED TO PLAY A RECOGNITION GAME. THIS GAME CAN BE PLAYED BETWEEN TWO TEAMS. TEAM PLAYERS WILL RECORD AUDIOS OF STARTING FEW LINES OF ANY NOVEL. THE OPPOSITE TEAM MEMBERS WILL GUESS THE RIGHT NAME OF NOVEL. THE ONES RECOGNISING MOST CORRECT ANSWERS WOULD BE DECLARED WINNERS!!
8. HIDE AND SEEK GAME—-
THIS LITERARY GAME IS PLAYED WITH FLASH CARDS. THE ANSWERS IN THIS GAME WILL BE THEORETICAL AND NOT ONE WORD TYPE. ON ONE SIDE OF FLASHCARDS, SOME TERMS ARE WRITTEN RELATED WITH’ LITERARY TERMS’ OR ‘ LITERARY THEORIES ‘. ON THE OTHER SIDE ITS DEFINITION IS WRITTEN . THE PLAYERS TAKE TURNS TO ASK QUESTIONS.
9. ICE CREAM STICKS GAME —
TAKE 10 ICECREAM STICKS . WRITE THE NAMES OF BOOKS ON 5 STICKS AND PLACE THEM IN PLASTIC CONTAINER. WRITE THE NAMES OF THE AUTHORS OF THESE BOOKS ON THE REMAINING 5 STICKS. TAKE TURNS TO MATCH THE CORRECT PAIR OF AUTHOR- BOOKS ICECREAM STICKS !!
10 . ENACT IT GAME—
LAST BUT NOT THE LEAST , ONE CAN PLAY ENACT IT GAME. THIS IS THE FUNNIEST AND THE MOST AMUSING GAMES OF ALL. IT CAN BE PLAYED BETWEEN TEAMS OF PLAYERS WHERE THEY CAN ENACT A SHORT PLAY OR ANY RENOWNED SCENE OF A FAMOUS DRAMA. THE WINNER SHOULD BE DECIDED ON THE BASIS OF DIALOGUE DELIVERY, GESTURES, USE OF PROPS, AND OVERALL PERFORMANCE SKILLS.
I HOPE YOU LIKED THESE GAMES AND WOULD DEFINITELY GIVE IT A TRY. MORE WHEN WE MEET AGAIN……..:)
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