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