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Literary terms bingo cards with vocabulary for metaphor, irony, symbolism, and other literary devices.
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These bingo cards contain 60 literary terms and devices for high school students (Grades 9–12). The word list covers poetic devices like assonance and enjambment, narrative elements like protagonist and climax, and rhetorical techniques including irony and satire. Use them for vocabulary review before a unit test, literature exam preparation, or as a warm-up activity during reading assignments.

Subject:
English / Language Arts
Topic:
Literature
Grade Level:
9th – 12th Grades
Updated May 2024

Word List

  • Assonance
  • consonance
  • dissonance
  • alliteration
  • allusion
  • onomotopoeia
  • hyperbole
  • sibilance
  • `inference
  • repetition
  • rhyme
  • metaphor
  • symbol
  • literal
  • fiturative
  • stanza
  • inspiration
  • annotation
  • description
  • personification
  • nature
  • theme
  • meaning
  • focus
  • juxstaposition
  • simile
  • thesis
  • antithesis
  • antagonist
  • protaganist
  • rising action
  • setting
  • climax
  • resolution
  • catharsis
  • connotation
  • euphemism
  • idiom
  • diction
  • dialogue
  • irony
  • innuendo
  • oxymoron
  • palindrome
  • plot
  • poetry
  • quest
  • propaganda
  • rhetoric
  • subtext
  • satire
  • limerick
  • haiku
  • pun
  • myth
  • narrator
  • enjambment
  • connontation
  • archetype
  • Bildungsroman

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