5th Grade Figurative Language Exercises

Give a cultural lesson and expand your students’ vocabulary at the same time with this idioms exercise.

Students will be as confident in writing as a Pulitzer Prize winner after completing this final exercise in the similes series.

Students will be able to creatively apply metaphors to their discussions after they complete this exercise.

Students will have a blast playing with this exercise that shows how spelling onomatopoeias comes from real-life sounds.

Every educator eschews un-exciting educational exercises; employ this Education.com exercise for an entertaining and eventful lesson on alliteration!

Students will finally have a name to describe the “dog ate my homework” storytelling that runs rampant throughout childhood with this hyperbole exercise.

There’s nothing greater than a student who can appreciate a pun activity when they play one.

Help students learn how to categorize objects with this exercise that educates them about oxymorons.