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