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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Kids complete sentences with idioms in this worksheet.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Alliteration is a type of figurative language that is often used to engage a reader’s senses. Use this resource with your students to practice identifying examples of alliteration in context.

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 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.

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

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

Give your learners some fun figurative language practice with Halloween-themed metaphors!

When your students read this exaggerated tale, they will find a ton of hyperboles!

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

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

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

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

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

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!

Play around with word sounds in this figurative language worksheet! Learn to identify assonance and consonance, two common poetic devices.