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.

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.

Use this activity to help students find and decipher metaphors in the context of short passages. Students will read the passages, record what is being compared in each, and then seek to explain the metaphors' meanings in their own words.

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

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.

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

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

Kids complete sentences with idioms in this worksheet.

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

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

Kids practice using idioms in this figurative language worksheet.

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.

In this exercise, students will use linking verbs to write metaphors with support.

Give your students a case of the giggles with twelve funny pun cards that use similar sounding words and phrases to create double meaning.

Engage your students with eggciting wordplay and food puns!

Are you so hungry you could eat a horse? Your students will have fun identifying the examples of hyperbole and idioms in this worksheet.

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.

Help your EL students use linking words to write similes!

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

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

Introduce your students to visual puns with these fun images! Then, challenge them to come up with their own visual puns.

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

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

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.

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!

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

This fun worksheet is an appealing way for students to see how hyperboles can add joy and humor to the writing process.

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

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.

Give your students exposure to funny puns related to animals!