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