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