(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.
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Example: The plate exploded into a million pieces.
hyperbole
Example: The beautiful valley spread its arms out and embraced us.
personification
Example: The commander had an army of 10,000 swords. (The people holding the swords were there, too.)
synecdoche
Example: When Senator Jackson said “numbers don’t lie,” he forgot that his first name wasn’t “Numbers.”
satire
Example: Ashley said it was a beautiful day while drying off from the drenching rain.
irony
Example: He was a wolf among sheep.
metaphor
Example: I came, I saw, I conquered.
anaphora
Example: If Edgar Allen Poe had written this speech, it might have opened with “Here we are, weak and weary, gathered on a Monday dreary.”
parody
Example: Dogs are mammals. Biscuit is a dog. Therefore, Biscuit is a mammal.
syllogism
Example: The treaty led to a violent peace.
oxymoron
Example: Youth is wasted on the young.
paradox
Example: A penny saved is a penny earned.
anaphorism
Example: The audience, or at least the paying members of the audience, enjoyed the show.
parenthesis
Example: The gnashing of teeth and screeching of bats kept me awake.
cacophony
Example: Dog owners own dogs and cats own cat owners.
chiasmus
Example: It was as hot as a desert this morning.
simile
Example: Look at the sky! It’s a bird! A plane! Superman!
climax
Example: She sells seashells by the sea shore.
alliteration
Example: Can we really know what our place in the universe is? We have asked ourselves this question for millennia.
rhetorical question
Example: Life is like a box of chocolates: you never know what you are going to get.
analogy
Example: The farmer tried to get his cows to get along, but they insisted on having a beef with each other.
pun
Example: She and Lee see the bees in the tree.
assonance
Example: The erupting volcano was a little problem for the neighboring city.
understatement
Example: He is the LeBron James of chess.
eponym
Example: The baseball struck him in a sensitive area.
euphemism
Example: The thunder boomed and the lightning crashed.
onomatopoeia
Example: Finishing his memoir was his white whale.
allusion
Example: Here in Philly, we love to eat hoagies and all kinds of tasty jawns.
colloquialism
Example: Five years ago, I went to the store and met some clowns. Those clowns gave me the advice I am sharing with you now.
anecdote
Example: Mike likes Ike’s bike.
consonance
Example: We’ll work on it on Sunday. No, let’s make that Monday—it’s the weekend after, all!
metanoia
Example: Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
parallelism
Example: This is a house, but I want a home.
connotation
Example: You need to listen to me and not Clueless Kevin over there.
epithet
Example: He loved music from the cradle (birth) to the grave (death).
metonymy
Example: No pain, no gain.
antithesis
Example: Get in, cause a distraction, get out.
asyndeton
Example: We must put an end to this peculiar institution. (“Peculiar institution” is a euphemism for slavery.)
meiosis
Example: You have made a fool out of me for the last time, washing machine!
apostrophe
Example: The eggs were not, in any sense of the word, delicious.
expletive
Example: Oh, yeah, he is a great guy. A great guy who took the last slice of pizza.
sarcasm
