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