Similes and Metaphors - 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. My bed is as hard as a rock.
2. My brother walks slow like a snail.
3. Repetition
4. He was as sick as a dog
5. Her stare froze me in my place
6. Tears slid from my eyes like soft raindrops.
7. Her stare froze me in my place
8. The occurrence of the same letter at the beginning of a word
9. Alliteration
10. The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor
11. Pathetic fallacy
12. A feather could’ve knocked me over
13. I am so hungry I could eat a horse
14. His hair was as right as a basket of oranges.
15. Personification
16. A comparison that directly compares without using like or as.
17. I smell a rat
18. Sibilance
19. Your words were a dagger to my heart.
20. I am so hungry I could eat a horse
21. Simile
22. Quite as a mouse
23. Sibilance
24. She ran like the wind
25. Time crawled to a stand still
26. The sign cried for our attention
27. Pathetic fallacy
28. Repetition
29. Quit horsing around
30. Time crawled to a stand still
31. Something that is exaggerated or claims not meant to be taken literally.
32. SIMILE
33. human characteristics to something non-human
34. Onomatopoeia
35. My mom is sweet as sugar.
36. A comparison using like or as.
37. The field of wheat waved in the wind like a rolling sea.
38. Quit horsing around
39. He has a temper like a volcano.
40. Rhyme
41. Her love burned me
42. intentionally using a word or phrase for effect, two or more times
43. He swims like a fish.
44. He was as sick as a dog
45. Something that is said more than once
46. Metaphor
47. The wind whistled as it blew
48. Rhyme
49. The class was as noisy as a crowd at a football game.
50. Poetic Device: two contradictory or opposite words appearing side by side.
51. Hyperbole
52. sound associated with what is name
53. Simile
54. A feather could’ve knocked me over
55. My brother's room is a rat's nest.
56. I smell a rat
57. Onomatopoeia
58. METAPHOR
59. Her news hit me like a ton of bricks
60. Metaphor
61. Oxymoron
62. Hyperbole
63. Alliteration
64. Directly refers to one thing by mentioning another.
65. She ran like the wind
66. human characteristics to something non-human
67. My legs are jelly after walking all day.
68. The wind whistled as it blew
69. The sign cried for our attention
70. Oxymoron
71. Her news hit me like a ton of bricks
72. METAPHOR
73. All the world’s a stage
74. Her love burned me
75. Personification
76. SIMILE
77. Quite as a mouse