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1st - 5th Grade Literary Devices and Figurative Language Worksheets : Page 4

Students will play with words as they explore a variety of oxymorons in this fun worksheet. As kids identify these contradictory terms and integrate them into sentences, they’ll see how figurative language can add humor and intrigue to their writing!

Inside Out Oxymorons!

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

Wacky Limericks

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

What Is an Idiom?

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!

Seriously Fun Oxymorons!

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

Intense Hyperboles

Oxymorons are seriously fun business! Your fifth graders will have fun making oxymorons by matching contradictory words, as well as crafting unique sentences as they practice using these antithetical phrases in their writing.

Oh My Oxymoron

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.

Seriously Funny Oxymorons

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

Sounds Like an Animal!

Give your students a case of the giggles with twelve funny pun cards that use similar sounding words and phrases to create double meaning.

Punny Jokes

Metaphors are imaginative ways to describe something by comparing that thing to something else. With this worksheet, students will write a metaphor for each pair of given words.

Making Metaphors

Give kids a chance to think creatively about metaphors by letting them write their own! Students will stretch their imaginations and figurative language skills as they think of ways to describe their class, bedroom, and more.

Write Your Own Metaphors

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

Alphabet Alliteration

Help your students practice identifying and writing alliterative sentences

Finish the Alliteration

Let’s exaggerate! Hyperboles are a fun way for students to spice up their writing.

Humongous Hyperboles

Introduce your students to analogies with this fun, fill-in-the-blank worksheet!

Awesome Analogies

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

What is Hyperbole?

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

Figurative Language: Silly Alliteration

Are you so hungry you could eat a horse? Your students will have fun identifying the examples of  hyperbole and idioms in this worksheet.

Expressions Explained

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

Identifying Alliteration, Descriptive Adjectives, and Nouns

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.

All Kinds of Sounds

Children will discover how figurative language can enliven writing in this fun cut-and-paste worksheet.

Rainy Day Friend Classroom Story

Introduce your students to visual puns with these fun images! Then, challenge them to come up with their own visual puns.

Visual Puns

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

Vocabulary Builder: Descriptive Words

Use this worksheet to help students practice understanding homophonic puns.

Homophonic Puns

Awfully Great Oxymorons

Use this worksheet to provide students with even more practice using both homophones and homonyms as they identify and write their own puns!

More Puzzling Puns

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

Make an Animal Metaphor

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

Create a Pun

This Easter worksheet will help students practice understanding the meaning of puns.

Bad Hare Day Easter Puns

Help your EL students use linking words to write similes!

Writing Similes with Linking Words

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