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Literary Terms - Call List

(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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  1. sequence of main events in the story
    plot
  2. internal or external; an element of plot
    conflict
  3. a pair of rhyming lines separate from the rest of the poem
    couplets
  4. repeating first consonant sounds
    alliteration
  5. a kind of style in art or literature
    genre
  6. description engaging 1 or more of your 5 senses
    imagery
  7. giving inanimate objects human characteristics
    personification
  8. personality of a character displayed by actions and dialogue
    characterization
  9. the central idea or lesson a story conveys
    theme
  10. one thing represents another often abstract idea
    symbolism
  11. language that conveys certain ideas by saying the opposite
    irony
  12. a comparison on basis of structure
    analogy
  13. monologue in which audience hears but not characters
    soliloquy
  14. 10 syllable lines of 5 feet
    iambic pentameter
  15. author's attitude toward the subject
    tone
  16. poem with meter but no rhyme; often iambic pentameter
    blank verse
  17. long speech by one character
    monologue
  18. poetry that expresses poet's emotions
    lyric
  19. comparison using "like" or "as"
    simile
  20. author gives clues about what will happen next
    foreshadowing
  21. a four line stanza
    quatrain
  22. extreme exaggeration
    hyperbole
  23. sound words
    onomatopoeia
  24. to explain how two things differ
    contrast
  25. Comparison not using "like" or "as"
    metaphor
  26. repetition of vowel sounds
    assonance
  27. the feeling a reader gets from the writing
    mood
  28. 14 line poem in iambic pentameter
    sonnet
  29. reference to someone/something well known
    allusion
  30. a seeming contradiction
    paradox
  31. poem with no meter or rhyme
    free verse
  32. a section of poetry in a poem; a verse
    stanza
  33. tying up loose ends in the story
    denouement
  34. emotional peak of the story
    climax
  35. I, me, my
    1st person point of view