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