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