(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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Rhetorical Question: asking a question, not for the purpose of eliciting an answer but for the purpose of asserting or denying something obliquely. What could you be thinking?
Alliteration: repetition of initial or medial consonants in two or more adjacent words. Peter Piper picked a peck…
Paranthesis: insertion of some verbal unit in a position that interrupts the normal syntactical flow of the sentence. There is even - and it is the achievement of this novel - a curious sense of happiness running through the paragraphs.
Hyperbole: the use of exaggeration for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect. His eloquence could split rocks.
Antithesis: the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas. To err is human; to forgive, divine.
Metaphor: implied comparison between two things of unlike nature, yet which have something in common. The question of federal aid is a bramble patch.
Onomatopoeia: using words, that sound like what they mean. Drip, crackle, bang, snarl pop!
Allusion: referring to a famous person, event, or work. I’m no Einstein, but I think that may be dangerous.
Hypophora: raising questions, then answering them. What behavior is uniquely human? My theory is that...
Expletive: a single word or phrase, usually interrupting normal syntax, used to lend emphasis to the words immediately proximate to the expletive. This is, I might add, a rough schedule.
Asyndeton: deliberate omission of conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses. We came, we saw, we conquered.
Climax: arrangement of words, phrases, or clauses in order of increasing importance. Miss America was eager to serve her family, her community, and her nation.
Oxymoron: a paradox reduced to two words. I do here make humbly bold...
Euphemism: the substitution of less pungent words for harsh ones, with ironic effect. The schoolmaster corrected the slightest fault with his birch reminder. (instead of whip)
Assonance: the repetition of similar vowel sounds in two or more adjacent words. Mad as a hatter.
Epanalepsis: repetition at the end of a clause of the word that occurred at the beginning of the clause. Blood hath brought blood, and blows answer´d blows.
Pun: word play If we don't hang together, we´ll hang separately.
Litotes: the use of deliberate understatement for emphasis or effect. Hitting that telephone pole certainly didn't do your car any good.
Anaphora: repetition of the same word or groups of words at the beginning of phrases, clauses, or sentences.
Simile: an explicit comparison, usually using "like," "as," or "than" between two things of unlike nature yet that have something in common. Silence settled over the audience like a block of granite.
Personification: investing abstractions or inanimate objects with human qualities or abilities. The ground thirsts for rain.
Ellipsis: deliberate omission of a word or words, which are readily implied by the context. The Master´s degree is awarded by thirty-two departments, and the Ph.D. by thirty-three.
Anastrophe: inversion of the natural or usual word order. Chocolate does not a diet make.
Paradox: a statement that appears to be contradictory but, in fact, has some truth. He worked hard at being lazy.
