(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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Attributing human characteristics to an inanimate object, animal, or abstract idea
Personification
A series of musically pleasant, harmonious sounds. Example: The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half light . . .
Euphony
A regular pattern of accented and unaccented syllables: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Meter
Repeated consonant sounds at the ends of words placed near each other. Example: a slick pack of milky cheese
Consonance
Speaking directly to an imagined listener or inanimate object
Apostrophe
Words that have different beginning sounds, but whose endings sound alike: the slime of time
Rhyme
A direct comparison between two unlike things, stating that one IS the other or DOES the action of the other.
Metaphor
Word play in which words with similar sounds have totally different meanings. Example: Let's make like a bread truck and haul buns.
Pun
A grouping of four lines of verse
Quatrain
The speaker or poet's attitude toward their subject or audience
Tone
A direct comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as." Example: His integrity is like steel beam.
Simile
An outrageous exaggeration for an effect
Hyperbole
Repeated, stressed vowel sounds in words placed near each other. Example: Blue suits are cool.
Assonance
Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words near each other. Example: Peter picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Alliteration
Breaking a line of poetry right in the middle of a unit of logical and grammatical sense, so that you have to read the next line to complete the unit of meaning
Enjambment
An object, event, person, or animal to which we have attached particular meaning or significance. Example: A dove represents peace.
Symbol
A contradictory statement or situation, to reveal a reality different from what appears to be true
Irony
The listener's or reader's emotional response
Mood
A division of a poem into groups of lines separated from other groups by a blank space, like a paragraph
Stanza
The use of consonance at the ends of lines to mimic rhyme. Example: soul,foil, fowl
Slant rhyme
A pair of lines, usually rhymed
Couplet
The emotional, social, or psychological overtones of a word, its implications and associations rather than its literal meaning
Connotation
A difficult to pronounce series of harsh, unpleasant sounds. Example: A steely clamor of dangling truck keys
Cacophony
A brief reference to some famous person, historical event, work of art, or Biblical/mythological situation or character
Allusion
Words that sound like their meanings. Example: pop, sizzle, swoosh, whir
Onomatopoeia