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This worksheet will help your child understand what similes are, and she'll even get to use her imagination to write some of her own!

Can you tell the difference between a simile and a metaphor? Help your star writer sort out her figurative language with a fun activity.

Most great stories are exaggerated to make them seem even more exciting or crazy. Help your child understand hyperbole with this fill-in-the-blank activity.

Read this silly, rhyming poem and find examples of hyperbole!

Assess your students’ knowledge of the eight most common types of figurative language.

Introduce your students to vocabulary words that will strengthen their descriptive writing!

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.

Help your writing sing with personification! Practice identifying the different examples of personification in these poems by Emily Dickinson.

Suffering from boring story syndrome? Never fear, Captain Hyperbole is here! Turn a bland statement into something incredible with the power of exaggeration.

Put all your Easter eggs in this worksheet! Help your students use the context of a sentence to discover the meaning of these Easter idioms.

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

With this word play worksheet students will practice identifying words and phrases that have deeper meaning, such as oxymorons and puns.

If your students need support in matching obscure words with the deeper meaning, invite them to use the clues on this worksheet to match words and phrases with their corresponding meanings.

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

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!

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.

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

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

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 her own.

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

When your students read this silly poem, they will find examples of hyperbole. Then, they will make a connection to another language concept: superlatives!

Help your budding wordsmiths develop their figurative language skills with this fun pun activity! This is a great worksheet for students to practice identifying and using homophones as they work to create their very own puns!

When your students read this exaggerated tale, they will find a ton of hyperboles!

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

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