(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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The central message or the lesson about life the author wants you to learn
Theme
when the author pauses in the story to describe events in the past
Flashback
A shortened version of the text that focuses on the main idea of the work
Summary
The bits and pieces of information that support the main idea
Detail
The author's reason for writing
Author's Purpose
Comparing two things not using like or as
Metaphor
The problem of a story
Conflict
Reasons why the character act the way they do
Character Motivation
The reason something happens
Cause
The main character in the story
Protagonist
The pattern of end rhyme (aabb)
Rhyme Scheme
The attitude, or feeling, that the author has about the subject
Tone
The feeling or emotion the reader gets when reading a passage
Mood
What happens as a result of the event or action
Effect
a row of words
Line
The text portrays events in the order they occur
Chronological order/Sequence
gives human qualities to non-human things
Personification
Point of greatest tension in the story
Climax
(POV)The person outside the story knows what most characters are doing, thinking, or feeling
3rd person Omniscient
The person that narrates the poem
Speaker
The person telling the story is inside the story (I, me, we, us)
1st Person
Gives directions to the actors how to act on stage (usually in parentheses/italics)
Stage Directions
The introduction of the characters, setting, and basic situation
Exposition
To use details, facts, and evidence, from a text to come to a new understanding about a topic or idea
Draw Conclusions
hint about events that will happen later that builds suspense
Foreshadowing
A statement of the author's point of view
Author's Claim
A character is struggling within himself/herself
Internal Conflict
A character is struggling against an outside force
External Conflict
A description that strongly appeals to the 5 senses (sight, smell, hearing, taste & touch)
Imagery
The series of events in a story
Plot
the central, or most important, idea in a paragraph or passage.
Main Idea
(POV) a person outside the story that knows the thoughts of only 1 character
3rd Person limited
Events that increase tension about the conflict
Rising Action
A group of lines (paragraph for poems)
Stanza
The perspective from which the story is told
Point of view
The conversation spoken between 2 or more characters
Dialogue
putting a part or all of a text into your own words
Paraphrase
The way an author organizes the text (problem/solution, sequence, etc)
Organizational Pattern
