Figurative Language Resources : Page 4

Kids complete sentences with idioms in this worksheet.

How is a grapefruit like a moon? They are both round! Students will identify which items are being compared in a metaphor, then describe one way they are alike.

Your mind will burst with knowledge after completing this hyperbole activity! Turn normal skills and traits into lager-than-life abilities using exaggeration.

Challenge your students to find the definitions of each homograph that give these puns their double meaning.

This is a hilarious worksheet for students to dive into as they hone their figurative language skills! Young wordsmiths will practice identifying the differences between homonyms and homophones as they analyze puns.

Successful students set sail with alliteration! Use this resource with your students to practice writing sentences using alliteration.

In this exercise, students will use linking verbs to write metaphors with support.

Your students will have fun identifying the homophones in these hilarious puns!

Give kids a chance to think creatively about metaphors by letting them write their own! Students will stretch their imaginations and figurative language skills as they think of ways to describe their class, bedroom, and more.

Help your students identify if alliteration is used in these funny sentences!

Children practice identifying and interpreting one type of figurative language, similes, in nine sample sentences.

Give your learners some fun figurative language practice with Halloween-themed similes!

Search this puzzle for onomatopoeias of animal sounds in other languages! How do they compare to the onomatopoeias you know?

EL students will read similes and identify how the two things being compared are alike.

Help your EL students use linking words to write similes!

Alliteration is a type of figurative language that is often used to engage a reader’s senses. Use this resource with your students to practice identifying examples of alliteration in context.

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

Children read a passage from L. Frank Baum's classic The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, then answer a series of questions in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Search this puzzle for animal onomatopoeias. An onomatopoeia is a word that imitates the sound that it's describing. These words are sounds made by animals!

In this worksheet, children read Danish storyteller Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale The Snowdrop, reimagined here as a drama.

Take an Earth Day-themed adventure through this figurative language maze!

Invite learners to practice identifying examples of hyperbole with this fun Earth Day maze!

Give your learners some fun figurative language practice with Halloween-themed metaphors!

In this worksheet, students will read Carl Sandburg's poem "Fog," then analyze the poem for figurative language.

Are you so hungry you could eat a horse? Your students will have fun identifying the examples of hyperbole and idioms in this worksheet.

Use this activity to help students find and decipher metaphors in the context of short passages. Students will read the passages, record what is being compared in each, and then seek to explain the metaphors' meanings in their own words.

Help your students understand figurative language as they practice identifying homonyms!

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

Have your learners practice identifying hyperboles with this fun, seasonal figurative language maze.