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

Give your learners some fun figurative language practice with Valentine's Day-themed similes!

Learners discover the magic of figurative language in this reading and writing exercise.

Give your learners fun practice identifying hyperboles with this sweet figurative language maze.

Your kids will have fun learning about hyperbole and writing some of their own exaggerations along the way!

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

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

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

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

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

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.

As quiet as a mouse or as quiet as a cucumber? Kids will learn the definition of a simile, then use pictures as clues to complete the similes.

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

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.

This worksheet is a slam dunk for metaphors! Your young writer will learn what makes up a metaphor, and then practice making a few of their own.

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

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.

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

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

Engage your students with eggciting wordplay and food puns!

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

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.

Help your EL students use linking words to write similes!

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

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.

Introduce your students to visual puns with these fun images! Then, challenge them to come up with their own visual puns.

Use these wacky sentences to help your students recognize alliteration as they read.

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.

What do you call a pig that does karate? A pork chop! This figurative language worksheet gives your students a chance to create art to represent puns. Kids will have fun reading the puns and making their own illustrations to accompany them!