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2nd - 4th Grade Common Core Literary Devices and Figurative Language Worksheets : Page 3

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

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!

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

Help your students practice identifying and writing alliterative sentences

Finish the Alliteration

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

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 vocabulary words that will strengthen their descriptive writing!

Vocabulary Builder: Descriptive Words

Use this worksheet to help students practice understanding homophonic puns.

Homophonic Puns

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

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

This fantastically fun worksheet is a great way for students to practice using alliteration.

Make It Alliterate

In this fun worksheet, students will get to practice using both homophones and homonyms as they identify and write puns!

Puzzling Puns

Help your students practice using two antonyms to create an oxymoron.

Oxymoron Creations

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

Simile Scramble

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Idioms.

Glossary: Idioms

This worksheet provides great practice for students to use alliteration in their writing.

Writing with Alliteration

What do you call a pig that does karate? A pork chop! This figurative language worksheet gives your students a chance to create art to represent puns. Kids will have fun reading the puns and making their own illustrations to accompany them!

Pun Art #1

Use this worksheet to help students practice understanding the meaning of Easter puns.

Eggsciting Easter Puns

Students will look at hilarious puns and how they use homonyms and homophones.

Let's Have Pun!

Children draw the literal meaning of a few idiomatic expressions as they consider their true social meaning.

Show Your Idioms

Help students understand homographic puns and how to use them.

Homographic Puns

Engage your students with food puns to excite their appetites and brains!

Fun with Food Puns #1

Engage your students with eggciting wordplay and food puns!

Fun with Food Puns #2

Use this awfully good worksheet about using an oxymoron to inspire creative writing.

Obvious Oxymoron

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Idioms.

Vocabulary Cards: Idioms

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