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5th - 7th Grade Common Core Figurative Language Resources : Page 4

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

Novel Study: The Hunger Games: Character Archetype Trading Cards

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!

Puns with Idioms

Give your learners some fun figurative language practice with Valentine&#39;s Day-themed similes!

Figurative Language Maze: Valentine's Day Similes

It&#39;s time to let loose and get silly with this fun figurative language exercise! This worksheet will let your students stretch their creativity as they practice using homonyms to write their own puns.

Create a Pun 2

Students will learn about the history of hyperbole in literature and politics.

Hyperboles in History

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

Assonance and Consonance

What could be more fun than using hyperbole? Adding superlatives! Your students will have fun identifying both of these figures of speech in this worksheet.

Hyperboles + Superlatives

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

Hyperbole

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

Puns with Homographs

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.

Animal Metaphors

Get to know figurative language like the back of your hand with this fifth-grade learning game!

Dino Bones: Using Figurative Language in Sentences

Students will learn to identify personification using nouns and verbs as signal words!

Identifying Personification with Nouns and Verbs

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

Expressions Explained

Engage your students with food puns to excite their appetites and brains!

Fun with Food Puns #1

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

Wacky Alliteration

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

Visual Puns

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

Sounds Like an Animal!

In this reading and writing worksheet about the poem “A Nation’s Strength” by William Ralph Emerson, students will use their understanding of figurative language to identify and define metaphors and difficult vocabulary.

A Nation’s Strength

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

Figurative Language Maze: Valentine's Day Hyperbole

Kids categorize metaphors by type in this sorting game.

Muggo's Brain: Sorting Metaphors

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

Punny Jokes

Take things to the extreme with this hyperbole practice sheet! Learn to use exaggeration to make your writing more descriptive.

What is Hyperbole?

Children use their knowledge of figurative language to complete the idioms in this fun fishing game!

Dino Fishing: Complete the Idiom

Students will learn to identify onomatopoeia using a word bank and context clues.

Practice Onomatopoeia!

Get ready for some serious fun! Your students will be amused as they learn to identify oxymorons in sentences. Then, they will write their own.

Seriously Funny Oxymorons

As your students read these silly limericks, they’ll identify examples of hyperbole.

Wacky Limericks

Help students understand homographic puns and how to use them.

Homographic Puns

Puns offer kids the chance to have fun with figurative language! Your students will giggle as they find homophones in each of these silly puns.

Puns with Homophones #2

It's time to change boring to extraordinary with hyperbole magic! Your fifth graders will enjoy rewriting simple statements using hyperbole to exaggerate. Once they finish, they will be the smartest students in the world.

Write Your Own Hyperboles #1

Students will learn common animal sound words in different languages!

Animal Sounds Around the World

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