Learners will use their background knowledge and sentence-based context clues to determine the meaning of common allusions.

Learners use their background knowledge and sentence-based context clues to determine the meaning of more common allusions.

Get students thinking critically and creatively about character archetypes in the novels they’re reading with this engaging reading activity!

This worksheet is a slam dunk for metaphors! Your young writer will learn what makes up a metaphor, and then practice making a few of their own.

After finishing Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief, students reflect on the author's use of dialogue and literary techniques to drive the story.

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

Search this puzzle for animal onomatopoeias. An onomatopoeia is a word that imitates the sound that it's describing. These words are sounds made by animals!

Students will learn about the history of hyperbole in literature and politics.

Your kids will have fun learning about hyperbole and writing some of their own exaggerations along the way!

Use this resource with your students to practice using context clues to determine the meaning of idioms.

As quiet as a mouse or as quiet as a cucumber? Kids will learn the definition of a simile, then use pictures as clues to complete the similes.

Children read a passage from L. Frank Baum's classic The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, then answer a series of questions in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Learners discover the magic of figurative language in this reading and writing exercise.

Practice identifying metaphors with this fun, winter-themed figurative language maze!

Get a taste of verbal irony with this figurative language worksheet in which students study the definitions and examples of sarcasm, exaggeration, and understatement.

Invite learners to practice identifying examples of hyperbole with this fun Earth Day maze!

Alliteration is a fun way to play with language! Use this resource with your students to practice identifying examples of alliteration

In this worksheet, learners will practice identifying metaphors as they color in the logs that contain them.

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

Have fun with hyperbole in this funny fill-in story-writing worksheet!

Learners will have fun honing their language and grammar skills with this fall-themed figurative language maze!

This grammar worksheet gives students a chance to study real examples of figurative language in context, including similes, metaphors, idioms, and personification.

Introduce your students to some common English idioms and their meanings.

This poem offers a fun, memorable example for students as they learn to interpret figurative language in works of poetry and literature.

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