Figurative Language Techniques Bingo

Play bingo with your high school students and recap their figurative language techniques in a fun and engaging way!

To save paper and space, the bingo cards are ready to be printed as 2 pages per A4 sheet. Once you’ve laminated the cards, students can either use whiteboard markers or counters to play the game.

Students need 5 terms in a row to win (vertically, horizontally or diagonally).

Appropriate for Year 7-12
Duration: ~20-30 minutes

– 32 unique bingo cards
– Includes master / instructions card

What terms are covered?
– Simile
– Metaphor
– Personification
– Oxymoron
– Pathetic fallacy
– Alliteration
– Sibilance
– Pun
– Rhyme
– Irony
– Idiom
– Assonance
– Consonance
– Hyperbole
– Paradox
– Rhetorical question
– Hypophora
– Onomatopoeia
– Imagery
– Colloquial language
– Emotive language
– Symbolism
– Allusion
– Repetition
– Anaphora
– Hyperbaton
– Euphemism

UPDATE
I’ve revised this bingo to have 2 definitions and 2 examples for each language technique so that you can play at least 2 rounds of it with your students.