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.

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

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

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

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

Use this worksheet to review figurative language! Students will write what they think each idiom on this worksheet means.

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.

Have fun with hyperbole in this funny fill-in story-writing worksheet!

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

Alliteration is a type of figurative language that is often used in poetry. Use this classic poem with your students to practice identifying alliteration in context.

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

Children will practice bringing excitement to their writing in this fun figurative language worksheet.

If your students need more practice with onomatopoeia, this worksheet will provide them with examples of common animal sounds and related contexts.

Your students will infer the meaning of unknown figurative language examples by using context clues.

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.

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.

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

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

This poem offers a fun, memorable example for students as they learn to interpret figurative language in works of poetry and literature.

Are you as quick as lightning? Learn about similes with this fun activity. Pick a simile and draw a picture to represent it.

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.

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!

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.

Students will read metaphors and identify how the two things being compared are alike.

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

In this worksheet, children will read five sentences, underlining the word that is an example of onomatopoeia.

This worksheet is a beast! That's a metaphor, and your child will be writing their own metaphors in no time, then they can use them in a poem.

Kids practice using idioms in this figurative language worksheet.

In this grammar worksheet, learners will enjoy writing what each idiom means figuratively, then drawing a picture to illustrate its meaning.

Play around with word sounds in this figurative language worksheet! Learn to identify assonance and consonance, two common poetic devices.