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Figurative Language - 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.


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  1. a play on words
  2. Simile
  3. metaphor
  4. repetition
  5. Alliteration
  6. same vowel sound in a line
  7. onomatopoeia
  8. Compares two things using like or as
  9. Hyperbole
  10. Reference to history, Bible, famous person, etc.
  11. a popular saying that is not to be taken literally
  12. irony
  13. oxymoron
  14. extreme exaggeration
  15. Assonance
  16. proverb
  17. Idiom
  18. giving human qualities to non human objects
  19. compares two things WITHOUT using like or as
  20. Same consonant sound at the beginning of a series of words
  21. Allusion
  22. Personification
  23. pun
  24. sound words