(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.
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A trembling fear or nervousness about something that might happen
trepidation
verbs that do not show action, like is or seems
Linking verbs
A horrible act or crime, usually resulting in serious injury
atrocity
For, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
Coordinating conjunctions
When the audience realizes something the characters don't
dramatic irony
These change a word's meaning
Prefixes
The number of nights it took the spirits to change Scrooge
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Verbs ending in ing or ed that are used as adjectives
participles
Sad and longing for something that has passed
wistful
The protagonist of A Christmas Carol
Ebenezer Scrooge
harmless, gentle, or pleasant
benign
A word that has more than one definition
polysemous
Lonely, isolated, sad, or depressed
desolate
Words like although, if, and when that are used to make dependent clauses
Subordinating Conjunctions
Verbs ending in ing that are used as nouns
gerunds
The number of years the Franks and Van Daans were in hiding
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A sentence with exactly one independent clause
Simple sentence
Obvious and noticeable
overt
Characters who undergo a significant change
Dynamic characters
The author of A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
The setting of A Christmas Carol
Victorian London
How poems are written (line by line)
verse
These change a word's part of speech
Suffixes
A sentence with one dependent and one independent clause
Complex Sentence
Intimidating, large, or difficult to overcome
formidable
A line of poetry that runs on to the next without punctuation
enjambment
examples include: "he's nuts" and "when pigs fly"
idioms
The repetition of the same vowel sound in a group of words
assonance
Able to hold a lot; roomy or spacious
capacious
Describes someone who is careful and concerned with the small details of something
meticulous
To be filled to the point of overflowing
teem
Characters who stay the same
Static characters
To make sense or be logical
coherent
A group of words that begins with a preposition and ends with a noun or pronoun
Prepositional phrase
The repetition of the same consonant sound in a group of words
consonance
To try or attempt to do something
endeavor
The author of The Tell-Tale Heart
Edgar Allan Poe
Describes something that is absolutely necessary or crucial
imperative
The error made from joining two independent clauses with only a comma
Comma Splice
Scrooge's former boss' name
Fezziwig
breaking down a word into its roots and affixes to determine its meaning
Structural analysis
Deep and insightful
profound
A sentence with two or more independent clauses
Compound sentence
Giving off or shedding light
luminous
verbs that must have a direct object
Transitive Verbs
The number of nights the narrator of The Tell-Tale Heart stalked the old man
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The number of wishes the monkey's paw granted its owner
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There are 26 of these verbs, including may, might, and must
Helping verbs
