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