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3rd - 5th Grade Literary Devices and Figurative Language Worksheets : Page 5

Use these wacky sentences to help your students recognize alliteration as they read.

Wacky Alliteration

These 24 cards will introduce your students to common sound words!

Onomatopoeia Visual Glossary Cards

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

Help your students practice adding hyperbole into their writing.

Hunting for Hyperbole

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

Let's Play with Alliteration

Give your students exposure to funny puns related to animals!

Animal Puns

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

Identifying Personification with Nouns and Verbs

Students will get even better at creating punny sentences as they use homonyms!

More Fun with Puns

Students will be rolling with laughter as they read and write their own puns!

Let's Have Even More Pun!

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

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

Use this organizer to help students track examples of hyperbole.

Hyperbole Tracker

In this worksheet, children will read five sentences, underlining the word that is an example of onomatopoeia.

Look for the Sounds

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: An Introduction to Onomatopoeia.

Glossary: An Introduction to Onomatopoeia

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Sense of Metaphors.

Glossary: Making Sense of Metaphors

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

Hard-Working Hyperbole

Use this worksheet for more practice identifying alliteration.

Is It Alliteration? #2

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

Make It Alliterate #2

Wild and Wonderful Alliteration

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: An Introduction to Onomatopoeia.

Vocabulary Cards: An Introduction to Onomatopoeia

Have fun with figurative language with these Halloween exaggerations that are sure to spook your students! They will enjoy the chance to write their own hyperboles with these over-the-top sentences.

Halloween Hyperboles

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Sense of Metaphors.

Vocabulary Cards: Making Sense of Metaphors

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Similes with Linking Words.

Vocabulary Cards: Similes with Linking Words

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