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.

Have a laugh (or a groan) with this fun figurative language worksheet all about puns!

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 their own.

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.

Children will love coming up with creative drawings that depict common idioms literally in this engaging grammar worksheet.

These similes got mixed up! With this simile worksheet, students will choose from a selection of words to complete the scrambled similes.

Help your EL students use linking words to write similes!

EL students will read similes and identify how the two things being compared are alike.

After finishing Mildred D. Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, give students a chance to think about the significance of the symbols used in the novel.

Children will practice bringing excitement to their writing in this fun figurative language worksheet.

Engage your students with eggciting wordplay and food puns!

Ooh, onomatopoeia! This is a word that mimics a sound: like the "slurp" of spaghetti, a dog's "woof", or comic book sounds like "crash", "bam" and "bang".

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

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

Children practice identifying and interpreting one type of figurative language, similes, in nine sample sentences.

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.

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

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

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

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

After reading The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, challenge students to think about the symbolism of the costumes in the novel and get creative!

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

This is a hilarious worksheet for students to dive into as they hone their figurative language skills! Young wordsmiths will practice identifying the differences between homonyms and homophones as they analyze puns.

Kids complete sentences with idioms in this worksheet.

Teach your students about contradictory phrases that go by the funny sounding name of "oxymoron." After your students match two words together to make oxymorons, they’ll write their own creative sentences using this fun figurative language

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