Figurative Language Literary Techniques Bingo for Middle / High School

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).

Recommended for: Grades 7–12
Duration: ~20–30 minutes per round

Includes:
✓ 32 unique bingo cards
✓ Master / Instructions card

Which 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 figurative / language technique so that you can play at least 2 rounds with your students.

More Figurative / Language Technique Resources:
➤ Magic School Escape Room – Narrative Structure & Figurative / Language Techniques
➤ Pirate Ship Escape Room – Poetry & Figurative / Language Techniques
➤ 2 Matching Figurative / Language Techniques Worksheets