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