4th - 8th Grade Figurative Language Resources : Page 4

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!

Have a laugh (or a groan) with this fun figurative language worksheet all about puns!

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.

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.

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

Students will learn to identify onomatopoeia using a word bank and context clues.

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

Kids practice using idioms in this figurative language worksheet.

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

After finishing Mildred D. Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, give students a chance to think about the significance of the symbols used in the novel.

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

Get plenty of practice with alliteration by identifying and creating alliterative sentences.

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

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

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

Help your EL students use linking words to write similes!

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 tool.

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.

If your students need more practice with onomatopoeia, this worksheet will provide them with examples of common animal sounds and related contexts.

Get ready for some serious fun! Your students will be amused as they learn to identify oxymorons in sentences. Then, they will write their own.

Silly sentences will have your students smiling! Use this resource with your students to practice writing silly sentences with alliteration.

Students will learn common animal sound words in different languages!

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

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