Help your students practice using two antonyms to create an oxymoron.

An oxymoron is a figure of speech made up of words with very different meanings. In this creative writing activity, students will put their figurative language skills to the test as they craft a story using some catchy contradictory phrases!

Teach your students about contradictory phrases that go by the funny sounding name of "oxymoron." After your students match two words together to make oxymorons, they’ll write their own creative sentences using this fun figurative language

Use this awfully good worksheet about using an oxymoron to inspire creative writing.

Oxymorons are seriously fun business! Your fifth graders will have fun making oxymorons by matching contradictory words, as well as crafting unique sentences as they practice using these antithetical phrases in their writing.

Bring opposites together to form oxymorons in this worksheet on figurative language!

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