people (oranimals) thatpopulate astorylinguistic/wordchoices awriter makesto convey anideaWhat thewords actuallymean, what isactuallyhappeningthe whereand thewhen of astorywords or phrasesthat aremeaningful, butnot literally true(i.e. hit me like aton of bricks)how the eventsof a story areordered andhow they arerelated to oneanothera sentence or aphrase thatappearscontradictory,but impliessome kind truthcentral idea ormessage of a workof literature, oftenexpressed as ageneral statementabout lifeliterary elementthat includes acombination ofcontrasting, oropposite, wordsAnauthor’sreason forwritinga character'sparticularattitudetowardsomethingauthor's,speaker's, ornarrator'sattitude towarda subjectan explicitcomparison,almost alwaysincludes thewords “like” and“as"what thewords aretrying to tellus that relatesto the worldan implicitcomparisonbetween twoor morethingsthe strugglebetween twoopposingforcesExtremeexaggerationof a realevent orsituationemotionalatmosphereof a pieceof wriringliterary elementused by writers tohint at what willhappen next, or atsome point, in thestoryused to refer tosomethingindirectly, or todescribesomething in amore pleasant orpolite waycan be objects,characters, or ideasrepresentingsomething else toadd depth andmeaning to a textthe way inwhich thewriter usestechniquesfor effecttype ofnarration usedby whoever istelling thestorywhen a narratoris mentallytransported toan event thathappened in thepastarrangementof words orphrasescharacter,or voice,telling astory the sequence ofevents in the story,and it can be dividedinto three parts: thebeginning, themiddle, and the endfigurativeor hiddenmeaningof wordsuse of wordsand phrasesto creatementalimagespeople (oranimals) thatpopulate astorylinguistic/wordchoices awriter makesto convey anideaWhat thewords actuallymean, what isactuallyhappeningthe whereand thewhen of astorywords or phrasesthat aremeaningful, butnot literally true(i.e. hit me like aton of bricks)how the eventsof a story areordered andhow they arerelated to oneanothera sentence or aphrase thatappearscontradictory,but impliessome kind truthcentral idea ormessage of a workof literature, oftenexpressed as ageneral statementabout lifeliterary elementthat includes acombination ofcontrasting, oropposite, wordsAnauthor’sreason forwritinga character'sparticularattitudetowardsomethingauthor's,speaker's, ornarrator'sattitude towarda subjectan explicitcomparison,almost alwaysincludes thewords “like” and“as"what thewords aretrying to tellus that relatesto the worldan implicitcomparisonbetween twoor morethingsthe strugglebetween twoopposingforcesExtremeexaggerationof a realevent orsituationemotionalatmosphereof a pieceof wriringliterary elementused by writers tohint at what willhappen next, or atsome point, in thestoryused to refer tosomethingindirectly, or todescribesomething in amore pleasant orpolite waycan be objects,characters, or ideasrepresentingsomething else toadd depth andmeaning to a textthe way inwhich thewriter usestechniquesfor effecttype ofnarration usedby whoever istelling thestorywhen a narratoris mentallytransported toan event thathappened in thepastarrangementof words orphrasescharacter,or voice,telling astory the sequence ofevents in the story,and it can be dividedinto three parts: thebeginning, themiddle, and the endfigurativeor hiddenmeaningof wordsuse of wordsand phrasesto creatementalimages

Literary Elements - 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. people (or animals) that populate a story
  2. linguistic/word choices a writer makes to convey an idea
  3. What the words actually mean, what is actually happening
  4. the where and the when of a story
  5. words or phrases that are meaningful, but not literally true (i.e. hit me like a ton of bricks)
  6. how the events of a story are ordered and how they are related to one another
  7. a sentence or a phrase that appears contradictory, but implies some kind truth
  8. central idea or message of a work of literature, often expressed as a general statement about life
  9. literary element that includes a combination of contrasting, or opposite, words
  10. An author’s reason for writing
  11. a character's particular attitude toward something
  12. author's, speaker's, or narrator's attitude toward a subject
  13. an explicit comparison, almost always includes the words “like” and “as"
  14. what the words are trying to tell us that relates to the world
  15. an implicit comparison between two or more things
  16. the struggle between two opposing forces
  17. Extreme exaggeration of a real event or situation
  18. emotional atmosphere of a piece of wriring
  19. literary element used by writers to hint at what will happen next, or at some point, in the story
  20. used to refer to something indirectly, or to describe something in a more pleasant or polite way
  21. can be objects, characters, or ideas representing something else to add depth and meaning to a text
  22. the way in which the writer uses techniques for effect
  23. type of narration used by whoever is telling the story
  24. when a narrator is mentally transported to an event that happened in the past
  25. arrangement of words or phrases
  26. character, or voice, telling a story
  27. the sequence of events in the story, and it can be divided into three parts: the beginning, the middle, and the end
  28. figurative or hidden meaning of words
  29. use of words and phrases to create mental images