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