Figurative Language Bump!
personification
simile
metaphor
hyperbole
onomatopoeia
alliteration
simile
hyperbole
oxymoron
idiom
oxymoron
hyperbole
alliteration
metaphor
idiom
simile
personification
alliteration
idiom
personification
oxymoron
personification
alliteration
metaphor
Instructions:
onomatopoeia
idiom
metaphor
simile
4 in Row!
Players take turns to pick a card. Read to work out
what figurative language has been used. They
then place their marker on a corresponding
circle. Players can bump other players off spaces.
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Game Cards- Page 1
Run slowly
I have a ton of homework.
I am busy doing nothing.
Awfully pretty
Squish!
I’m as nutty as a fruit cake.
The sky roared.
The snow is a white blanket.
The book flew off the shelves.
Zoom!
The flowers danced in the breeze.
The sea is a cruel desert.
It’s raining cats and dogs.
The living dead
I’ve told you a million times!
The sun crawled across the sky.
Five friendly foxes
He’s as cool as a cucumber.
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Game Cards- Page 2
Splat! The egg dropped.
Terrifying tigers
Break a leg
I’m so hungry I could eat a horse.
Max is as quick as lightning.
He was a speeding bullet.
It cost an arm and a leg.
That’s the best idea ever!
Don’t cry over spilt milk.
Buzz
Curiosity killed the cat.
As wise as an owl
Don’t be a couch potato.
Silly sausages
Sleep like a baby
Soft as a feather
Tick tock
He is as light as a feather.
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Game Cards- Page 3
I am an angel at school.
Her teeth were blinding white.
You’re a pig when you eat.
This room is a pigsty.
This level is impossible to beat.
You’re as tall as a giraffe!
As sly as a fox
Pinching pennies
Soar like an eagle
Giggling girls
Once in a blue moon
Crash!
His brain is the size of a pea.
I feel blue.
My friend could talk underwater.
My homework is a piece of cake.
The classroom is a zoo.
She eats like a pig.
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Game Cards- Page 4
Your voice is music to my ears.
Don’t cut corners with your work.
My sister was boiling mad.
The stars winked.
You snore louder than a freight train.
The moon smiled.
Sensational Sarah
Deafening silence
This test will be a breeze.
His smile was as wide as the room.
I’m drowning in all my homework.
Singing sweetly
The wind howled.
I’m so hungry I’ll die!
The living dead
We don’t see eye to eye.
Burp!
“That’s the last straw,” shouted mum.
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