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Showing Results for using figurative language other literary devices in writing

Students hone their ability to spot literary devices with this fun, winter-themed figurative language maze!

Figurative Language Maze: Winter Similes

Help students learn and remember key types of figurative language with this convenient handout!

Figurative Language Handout

Introduce your students to eight common types of figurative language with this colorful exercise.

What Is Figurative Language?

Learners will have fun honing their language and grammar skills with this fall-themed figurative language maze!

Figurative Language Maze: Fall Similes

Give your learners some fun figurative language practice with this worksheet featuring summer-themed similes!

Figurative Language Maze: Summer Similes

Assess your students&rsquo; knowledge of the eight most common types of figurative language.

Figurative Language: Figure It Out!

Alliteration is a type of figurative language that is often used in poetry. Use this classic poem with your students to practice identifying alliteration in context.

Figurative Language: Alliteration in Poetry

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.

Figurative Language: Alliteration in Context

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.

Fall Figurative Language Task Cards

Students will learn to identify and interpret similes, metaphors, and personification in writing.

Figurative Language Practice

Use this resource with your students to practice using context clues to determine the meaning of idioms.

Figurative Language: Idioms

Successful students set sail with alliteration! Use this resource with your students to practice writing sentences using alliteration.

Figurative Language: Alliteration Sentences

Silly sentences will have your students smiling! Use this resource with your students to practice writing silly sentences with alliteration.

Figurative Language: Silly Alliteration

Alliteration is a fun way to play with language! Use this resource with your students to practice identifying examples of alliteration

Figurative Language: Identifying Alliteration

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

Assonance and Consonance

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

Review: Metaphors and Similes

Kids practice using idioms in this figurative language worksheet.

Identify the Idiom

Explore figurative language in context with this personification worksheet designed for fifth through eigth graders!&nbsp;

Personification in Context

Search this puzzle for onomatopoeias of animal sounds in other languages! How do they compare to the onomatopoeias you know?

Animal Sounds in Other Languages: Onomatopoeia Word Search

Help your students understand figurative language as they practice identifying homonyms!

Fun with Puns

Make a splash with this summer-themed figurative language worksheet for fourth and fifth graders!

Onomatopoeia Practice: Summer Fun

Children work with two forms of figurative language in this grammar worksheet.

Mixed Practice: Similes and Metaphors #1

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

Create a Pun

Mixed Practice: Similes and Metaphors #2

Fall for figurative language with this engaging worksheet that helps students master the art of personification!

Fall Personification

Introduce learners to this fun form of figurative language with this entertaining worksheet.

Intense Hyperboles

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

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

Metaphors in Poetry

Learners will practice identifying and decoding figurative language as they read and decipher five practice sentences.

Play on Words

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

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