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