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March is Reading Month: Literary Terms Bingo - 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. PERSONIFICATION
  2. GENRE
  3. PLOT
  4. PROTAGONIST
  5. ALLITERATION
  6. ANTAGONIST
  7. EXPOSITION
  8. FORESHADOWING
  9. SIMILE
  10. DIALOGUE
  11. HYPERBOLE
  12. CHARACTER
  13. AUTHOR
  14. SETTING
  15. METAPHOR
  16. INDIRECT CHARACTERIZATION
  17. PROLOGUE
  18. CLIMAX
  19. TONE
  20. IRONY
  21. EPILOGUE
  22. NARRATIVE
  23. SYMBOLISM
  24. FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
  25. RESOLUTION
  26. FLASHBACK
  27. OXYMORON
  28. CONFLICT
  29. IMAGERY
  30. MOOD
  31. RISING ACTION
  32. IDIOM
  33. THEME
  34. FALLING ACTION
  35. DIRECT CHARACTERIZATION
  36. ONOMATOPOEIA