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5th - 7th Grade Figurative Language Resources : Page 5

Let’s exaggerate! Hyperboles are a fun way for students to spice up their writing.

Humongous Hyperboles

This graphic organizer helps your students examine descriptive adjectives and nouns.

T-Chart: Descriptive Adjectives and Nouns

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.

Oh My Oxymoron

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!

Pun Art #1

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

Use this worksheet to provide students with even more practice using both homophones and homonyms as they identify and write their own puns!

More Puzzling Puns

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

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

Hyperboles in History

Help your students practice adding hyperbole into their writing.

Hunting for Hyperbole

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

Oxymoron Creations

Kids categorize metaphors by type in this sorting game.

Muggo's Brain: Sorting Metaphors

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

Wacky Limericks

Help your students use homonyms to write their own puns as they practice using figurative language with this fun activity!

Create a Pun

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Similes with Linking Words.

Vocabulary Cards: Similes with Linking Words

Kids help Muggo sort metaphors into emotions, actions, and appearances.

Metaphor Sorting in Muggo's Brain

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!

Oh My Oxymoron #2

With this worksheet, your fifth graders will add feeling to their writing by using hyperbole. Hyperbole is an extreme exaggeration that adds emphasis and humor for extra effect. Once they complete this worksheet, they will be masters of hyperbole.

Write Your Own Hyperboles #2

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Sense of Metaphors.

Vocabulary Cards: Making Sense of Metaphors

Get plenty of practice with alliteration by identifying and creating alliterative sentences.

Identifying Alliteration, Descriptive Adjectives, and Nouns

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

Dino Fishing: Complete the Idiom

Young writers will work with animal metaphors as they plan and craft a poem about someone they know.

Make an Animal Metaphor

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

Obvious Oxymoron

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: An Introduction to Onomatopoeia.

Vocabulary Cards: An Introduction to Onomatopoeia

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Personification Practice.

Glossary: Personification Practice

Students will get even better at creating punny sentences as they use homonyms!

More Fun with Puns

In this fun worksheet, students will get to practice using both homophones and homonyms as they identify and write puns!

Puzzling Puns

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Alliteration Accessible.

Vocabulary Cards: Making Alliteration Accessible

Use this worksheet to help students practice understanding the meaning of Easter puns.

Eggsciting Easter Puns

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: An Introduction to Onomatopoeia.

Glossary: An Introduction to Onomatopoeia

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