(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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A POLITICAL OR SOCIAL ISSUE is important to the work's meaning.
CHILDHOOD is important, whether positive or negative.
GENDER: Tensions between men and women are important to the work's meaning.
A PHYSICAL JOURNEY is important to the work's meaning.
POWER: A character is motivated by the desire for power.
TIME: The text uses time in an unusual or distinct way.
GENERATION GAP: Older and younger characters see the world differently.
MONEY: Wealth or lack of wealth are important to the work's meaning.
'THOUGHTFUL LAUGHTER': A scene or work that makes you laugh...and think.
CONFORMITY: A character outwardly conforms, but inwardly questions.
HOPE: What a character's hopes reveals about his or her values.
THE PAST: A character is still affected by events from the past.
CRUELTY: What acts of cruelty reveal about the perpetrator or victim.
A MENTOR has a major major impact on another character's worldview.
INACTION: A character fails to respond or act at a crucial moment.
MORAL AMBIGUITY: A character who is neither "purely good" nor "purely evil."
CHARACTER FOIL: We learn about one character via another character's contrasting traits.
BETRAYAL: One character betrays another, themselves or their own beliefs.
NAMES: A character's name reveals his or her complexity or ambiguity.
A MYSTERY is investigated in a non-detective novel.
ALIENATION: A character feels isolated from family, society, or another important group.
SACRIFICE: What a character gives up reveals his or her values.
DEATH: A death scene is important to the work's meaning.
A TRAGIC HERO who suffers, but also causes suffering for others.
