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