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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

When your students read this silly poem, they will find examples of hyperbole. Then, they will make a connection to another language concept: superlatives!

Help your EL students use linking words to write similes!

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

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

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

In this worksheet, students will read Carl Sandburg's poem "Fog," then analyze the poem for figurative language.

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

Kids practice using idioms in this figurative language worksheet.

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

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

Learners will practice identifying and decoding figurative language as they read and decipher five practice sentences.

In this grammar worksheet, learners will enjoy writing what each idiom means figuratively, then drawing a picture to illustrate its meaning.

This exercise will get your students inferring the meaning of unknown metaphors.

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

Your students will have fun identifying the homophones in these hilarious puns!

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

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.

This worksheet is a beast! That's a metaphor, and your child will be writing their own metaphors in no time, then they can use them in a poem.

Successful students set sail with alliteration! Use this resource with your students to practice writing sentences using alliteration.

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.