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As students begin to read more sophisticated texts, understanding how authors use figurative language becomes critical. In this unit, students will revisit some of the figurative language they learned in fourth grade and also study some new ones too, including onomatopoeia, hyperbole, puns and oxymorons. Analyzing how figurative language is used in texts will help readers apply what they have learned.

Figurative Language

Challenge your students to write sentences using alliteration!

More Creative Alliteration

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

Oxymoron Creations

Students will laugh as they practice using alliteration in this fun writing worksheet.

Let's Play with Alliteration

Your students will infer the meaning of unknown figurative language examples by using context clues.

Making Sense of Figurative Language 1

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

Practice using onomatopoeia like hiss, squeak, and boom in this fun language puzzle!

Onomatopoeia Crossword Puzzle #3

Kids practice using idioms in this figurative language worksheet.

Identify the Idiom

Do your students understand the deeper meaning or humor behind a play on words? In this lesson, students will learn how to interpret the meaning of oxymorons and puns, identify key words, and explain the meanings!

Deeper Meanings

Help your students identify if alliteration is used in these funny sentences!

Is It Alliteration?

This wonderful worksheet is a great way for students to practice using alliteration!

Make It Alliterate #2

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

Make It Alliterate

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

Practice Onomatopoeia!

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

Identifying Personification with Nouns and Verbs

Introduce your students to these common English idioms, used in the context of a sentence.

Idioms in Context

Practice using personification with this autumnal worksheet created for fifth through eighth graders!

Personification Practice: Fall Orchard Adventures

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

Puzzling Puns

Help your ELs learn about alliteration and practice identifying the descriptive adjectives and nouns that make up alliterative sentences. It can be a stand-alone lesson or used as support to the lesson Analyzing Alliteration.

Making Alliteration Accessible

What could be more fun than using hyperbole? Adding superlatives! Your students will have fun identifying both of these figures of speech in this worksheet.

Hyperboles + Superlatives

Your mind will burst with knowledge after completing this hyperbole activity! Turn normal skills and traits into lager-than-life abilities using exaggeration.

Hyperbole

It's time to let loose and get silly with this fun figurative language exercise! This worksheet will let your students stretch their creativity as they practice using homonyms to write their own puns.

Create a Pun 2

It's time to change boring to extraordinary with hyperbole magic! Your fifth graders will enjoy rewriting simple statements using hyperbole to exaggerate. Once they finish, they will be the smartest students in the world.

Write Your Own Hyperboles #1

With this worksheet, your fifth graders will add feeling to their writing by using hyperbole. Hyperbole is an extreme exaggeration that adds emphasis and humor for extra effect. Once they complete this worksheet, they will be masters of hyperbole.

Write Your Own Hyperboles #2

Teach your students about hyperbole using music! First, let them practice interpreting hyperboles. Then, play a song (or provide lyrics) and invite them to listen for an example of hyperbole.

Hip-Hop Hyperboles

Help your budding wordsmiths develop their figurative language skills with this fun pun activity! This is a great worksheet for students to practice identifying and using homophones as they work to create their very own puns!

Pun with Homophones

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

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

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 tool.

Make a Match with Oxymorons

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

Mixed Practice: Similes and Metaphors #2

With this worksheet, your students practice and identifying and writing hyperboles.

Hard-Working Hyperbole

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