4th - 7th Grade Figurative Language Resources : Page 3

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

Search this puzzle for onomatopoeias of animal sounds in other languages! How do they compare to the onomatopoeias you know?

Introduce your students to vocabulary words that will strengthen their descriptive writing!

Use this worksheet to review figurative language! Students will write what they think each idiom on this worksheet means.

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.

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.

This seventh-grade worksheet gives students a chance to study real examples of allusion (mythological, biblical, literary, or historical), simile, personification, or metaphor. 

Give your learners fun practice identifying hyperboles with this sweet figurative language maze.

In this worksheet, children read Danish storyteller Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale The Snowdrop, reimagined here as a drama.

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

Kids complete sentences with idioms in this worksheet.

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

Engage your students with food puns to excite their appetites and brains!

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

Have your learners practice identifying hyperboles with this fun, seasonal figurative language maze.

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

Challenge your students to use what they know about idioms to find the double meaning in these silly puns. They will ‘get a kick’ out of it!

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

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

Invite your learners to practice identifying hyperboles with this fun figurative language maze! 

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.

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.

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

Brush up on your figurative language skills this fall season with this engaging metaphors maze!

Encourage creativity and critical thinking about the characters in The Hunger Games with this artistic extension activity!

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

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.

Challenge your students to find the definitions of each homograph that give these puns their double meaning.