Students will play with words as they explore a variety of oxymorons in this fun worksheet. As kids identify these contradictory terms and integrate them into sentences, they’ll see how figurative language can add humor and intrigue to their writing

Assess your students’ knowledge of the eight most common types of figurative language.

Having fun with words and sounds! Extend your students’ experience with onomatopoeia by giving them words to sort and asking them to identify how an author could use specific words in their writing.

After completing this worksheet, you’ll know oxymorons inside out!

Challenge your students to use what they know about idioms to find the double meaning in these silly puns. They will ‘get a kick’ out of it!

Get students thinking figuratively by having them connect their understanding of metaphors and similes to the books they read in class. Students will seek out a metaphor or simile in their reading, consider the quote's context, then explain what they

Children work with two forms of figurative language in this grammar worksheet.

Brush up on your figurative language skills this fall season with this engaging metaphors maze!

Children will love coming up with creative drawings that depict common idioms literally in this engaging grammar worksheet.

Students will look at hilarious puns and how they use homonyms and homophones.

Encourage creativity and critical thinking about the characters in The Hunger Games with this artistic extension activity!

Let spring blossoms teach you a lesson on personification in this cheery worksheet!

Explore figurative language in context with this personification worksheet designed for fifth through eigth graders! 

Give your students a case of the giggles with twelve funny pun cards that use similar sounding words and phrases to create double meaning.

Get students thinking critically and creatively about character archetypes in the novels they’re reading with this engaging reading activity!

After finishing Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief, students reflect on the author's use of dialogue and literary techniques to drive the story.

Inspire a love for creative language in fourth- and fifth-grade students!

Have some fun with the alphabet as you learn all about alliteration! Create an alliteration for every letter of the alphabet.

Can you tell the difference between a simile and a metaphor? Students will seek to distinguish between—and determine the meanings of—simple similes and metaphors with this multiple choice activity.

Ideal for fourth and fifth graders, this worksheet includes figurative language examples and definitions on the first page, and a second full page of questions and tasks that can be used to check for understanding.

This grammar worksheet gives students a chance to study real examples of figurative language in context, including similes, metaphors, idioms, and personification.

This middle school worksheet gives students a chance to study real examples of allusion (mythological, biblical, literary, or historical), simile, personification, or metaphor. 

Students study real examples of verbal irony, puns, personification, and allusions in context with this middle grades worksheet!