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Academic Terms for STAAR - 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. refers to the emotions that a text evokes from the reader
    mood
  2. a message that the author reveals
    theme
  3. an opposing side of an issue
    counter argument
  4. punctuation that states a list is following
    colon
  5. the narrator reveals the thoughts and feelings of one character
    3rd person limited
  6. words or phrases that connect sentences or paragraphs
    transitions
  7. punctuation that divides independent clauses
    semi-colon
  8. Indirect reference to another famous book,movie, or historical event
    Allusion
  9. a direct statement from a passage
    quotation
  10. a personal story
    anecdote
  11. The audience knows what is happening, but the character doesn't
    dramatic irony
  12. The author's attitude
    tone
  13. an unusual comparison without using like or as
    Metaphor
  14. a dependent + an independent clause
    complex sentence
  15. a way of writing about a flaw or failure in society by exaggerating it to absurdity.
    satire
  16. emotional connection to a word
    connotation
  17. The sentence in an essay that states what the whole passage is about.
    thesis
  18. the narrator reveals the thoughts and feelings of more than one character
    3rd person omniscient
  19. creating a picture with words
    imagery
  20. when a character in a dramatic work speaks directly to the audience
    soliloquy
  21. a statement that many will agree with
    truism
  22. a word that sounds the same but is spelled differently
    homonym
  23. giving human qualities to something that is not human
    personification
  24. a figure of speech with opposing meanings like jumbo shrimp
    oxymoron
  25. a word that is always capitalized
    The pronoun "I"
  26. an object, image, sound, or phrase that is repeated throughout a story to point toward the story's larger theme
    motif
  27. a group of words with a subject and verb but it doesn't express a complete thought
    fragment
  28. word choice
    diction
  29. answer the question; provide text evidence; explain it and add a truism
    A.P.E.+T