ELA: Figurative Language Review - 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.

1. Idiom
   The bride got cold feet on her wedding day.
2. The soda can winked at me invitingly from inside the fridge
   Personification
3. Idiom
   That book was so popular, it flew off the shelves
4. Definition: giving human-like attributes to non-human things
   Define: Personification
5. Personification
   The thunder grumbled with anger.
6. I slept like a baby last night.
   Simile
7. Metaphor
   The syrup is a slide down the pancakes.
8. Onomatopoeia
   The squealing alarm woke me up.
9. Simile
   I turned as white as a ghost.
10. The fire began to crackle and pop.
    Onomatopoeia
11. Personification
    The moon played hide and seek with the clouds.
12. Alliteration
    A bug bite by Betty's big toe bugged her
13. Definition: Compares two unlike things by saying one thing is another
    Define: Metaphor
14. Onomatopoeia
    EEEKKK!!!
15. Simile
    She is as thin as a toothpick.
16. The sun smiled down at Earth below.
    Personification
17. The class went absolutely bananas with free time.
    Idiom
18. My phone is a door to a different world.
    Metaphor
19. Alliteration
    Silly Sally swiftly shooed seven silly sheep to sleep.
20. Define: Hyperbole
    Definition: Phrases that exaggerate a meaning but couldn't really happen
21. Idiom
    Aren't you a sight for sore eyes?
22. My head exploded at the amount of homework
    Hyperbole
23. Simile
    My cat is as lazy as a sack of potatoes.
24. Hyperbole
    All of my dreams died when my teacher announced a pop quiz.
25. Cold crocodiles crawl cautiously.
    Alliteration
26. Music is a warm hug when you're feeling down
    Metaphor
27. Definition: a word that sounds like the actual noise it makes
    Define: Onomatopoeia
28. Define: Simile
    Definition: Comparing two things using like or as
29. Personification
    His phone shook and shouted with incoming texts.
30. Davy definitely didn't do his due diligence.
    Alliteration
31. Metaphor
    The peaceful lake was a mirror.
32. She was like sunshine on a cloudy day
    Simile
33. Hyperbole
    I ran forever in PE today.
34. Definition: a cultural phrase or expression that doesn't mean the literal definition of the words
    Define: Idiom
35. Idiom
    Jessica gave me the cold shoulder.
36. Define: Alliteration
    Definition: Repeated beginning sounds
37. The test was a monster.
    Metaphor
38. Hyperbole
    I am so full that I am about to burst.
39. The test was hard, but I passed with flying colors.
    Idiom