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