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

Learn about common patterns in storytelling with this middle-grade worksheet!

Learn onomatopoeia while you experience an exciting video game quest!

Students will learn to identify personification using nouns and verbs as signal words!

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

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

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

Take things to the extreme with this hyperbole practice sheet! Learn to use exaggeration to make your writing more descriptive.

Have some fun with the alphabet as you learn all about alliteration! Create an alliteration for every letter of the alphabet.

Are you as quick as lightning? Learn about similes with this fun activity. Pick a simile and draw a picture to represent it.

This poem offers a fun, memorable example for students as they learn to interpret figurative language in works of poetry and literature.

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

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.

As quiet as a mouse or as quiet as a cucumber? Kids will learn the definition of a simile, then use pictures as clues to complete the similes.

Middle school students will uncover the blueprints of every legendary tale as they learn, identify, and draw symbols for six different plot archetypes!

Get ready for some serious fun! Your students will be amused as they learn to identify oxymorons in sentences. Then, they will write their own.

Students will get to play with words as they explore a variety of oxymorons in this seriously fun worksheet! As kids explain the meaning of these contradictory terms, they’ll learn how figurative language can add humor and intrigue to their writing!

What does "when pigs fly" mean if pigs can't really fly? Kids use context clues to learn the meanings of common idioms on this third grade reading worksheet.

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

Determine the appropriate onomatopoeia for different situations in this engaging puzzle!

Kids practice using idioms in this figurative language worksheet.

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

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

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