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Literature bingo cards with literary devices, story structure, and research vocabulary for high school.
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These literature bingo cards for 9th and 10th graders combine 31 terms across three domains: literary devices like metaphor and onomatopoeia, story structure elements including Freytag's Pyramid and climax, and research skills such as primary sources and citations. Use them for vocabulary review before a unit test, as a warm-up for poetry or narrative study, or edit them as a template for genre-specific bingo activities.

Subject:
English / Language Arts
Topic:
Literature
Grade Level:
9th – 10th Grades
Updated January 2025

Word List

  • research
  • bibliography
  • cite
  • claim
  • counter-claim
  • credible
  • hook
  • online
  • primary source
  • print
  • research
  • secondary source
  • source
  • wiki sites
  • alliteration
  • onomatopoeia
  • hyperbole
  • metaphor
  • simile
  • personification
  • allusion
  • Fretag's Pyramid
  • conflict
  • exposition
  • characters
  • climax
  • inciting incident
  • denoument
  • plot
  • rising action
  • falling action

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Print a class set of unique bingo cards for classroom games, review sessions, or parties. Click 'View Bingo Cards' to choose how many cards to generate and customize the word list.

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