a categorysuch as ashort story,folktale,poem, novelimaginativelanguage that isnot meant to beinterpreteliterallya type ofwritingthat tells astorya writingthatexplainsa sentencethat statesthe mainidea of aparagraphthe exact,literalmeaningof a wordwords thatappeal tothe fivesensesa work offiction thatpresents asequence ofeventsthesuggested orimpliedmeaning of aworda suddenand vividmemory ofan event inthe pastthe timeandplacea secondaryplot thatoccurs alongthe main plotthe process ofexaminingclosely theelements of aliterary worktheopeningparagraphof an essaythecentralideaa strugglebetweenopposingforcesclues or hintssignalingevents thatwill occur latera writer's orspeaker'schoice ofwordsgives humantraits tosomethingnon humana group oflines thatform a unitwithin apoemthe sequenceof relatedevents thatmake up astorydetails thatsupportthe topicsentencea comparisonbetween twounlike withoutusing like orasa comparisonbetween twounlike thingsusing like orasmethods awriter usesto developcharactersa categorysuch as ashort story,folktale,poem, novelimaginativelanguage that isnot meant to beinterpreteliterallya type ofwritingthat tells astorya writingthatexplainsa sentencethat statesthe mainidea of aparagraphthe exact,literalmeaningof a wordwords thatappeal tothe fivesensesa work offiction thatpresents asequence ofeventsthesuggested orimpliedmeaning of aworda suddenand vividmemory ofan event inthe pastthe timeandplacea secondaryplot thatoccurs alongthe main plotthe process ofexaminingclosely theelements of aliterary worktheopeningparagraphof an essaythecentralideaa strugglebetweenopposingforcesclues or hintssignalingevents thatwill occur latera writer's orspeaker'schoice ofwordsgives humantraits tosomethingnon humana group oflines thatform a unitwithin apoemthe sequenceof relatedevents thatmake up astorydetails thatsupportthe topicsentencea comparisonbetween twounlike withoutusing like orasa comparisonbetween twounlike thingsusing like orasmethods awriter usesto developcharacters

Literary Terms - 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. a category such as a short story, folktale, poem, novel
  2. imaginative language that is not meant to be interprete literally
  3. a type of writing that tells a story
  4. a writing that explains
  5. a sentence that states the main idea of a paragraph
  6. the exact, literal meaning of a word
  7. words that appeal to the five senses
  8. a work of fiction that presents a sequence of events
  9. the suggested or implied meaning of a word
  10. a sudden and vivid memory of an event in the past
  11. the time and place
  12. a secondary plot that occurs along the main plot
  13. the process of examining closely the elements of a literary work
  14. the opening paragraph of an essay
  15. the central idea
  16. a struggle between opposing forces
  17. clues or hints signaling events that will occur later
  18. a writer's or speaker's choice of words
  19. gives human traits to something non human
  20. a group of lines that form a unit within a poem
  21. the sequence of related events that make up a story
  22. details that support the topic sentence
  23. a comparison between two unlike without using like or as
  24. a comparison between two unlike things using like or as
  25. methods a writer uses to develop characters