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