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

Learn the uses of symbolic settings with this figurative language worksheet!

Learn about common patterns in storytelling with this middle-grade worksheet!

Learn onomatopoeia while you experience an exciting video game quest!

Students will learn to identify personification using nouns and verbs as signal words!

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

Students will learn to identify and interpret similes, metaphors, and personification in writing.

Become as clever as a fox as you learn to identify and interpret similes and metaphors!

Help students learn and remember key types of figurative language with this convenient handout!

Take things to the extreme with this hyperbole practice sheet! Learn to use exaggeration to make your writing more descriptive.

Are you as quick as lightning? Learn about similes with this fun activity. Pick a simile and draw a picture to represent it.

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

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

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.

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.

Middle school students will uncover the blueprints of every legendary tale as they learn, identify, and draw symbols for six different plot archetypes!

Students will get to play with words as they explore a variety of oxymorons in this seriously fun worksheet! As kids explain the meaning of these contradictory terms, they’ll learn how figurative language can add humor and intrigue to their writing!

What does "when pigs fly" mean if pigs can't really fly? Kids use context clues to learn the meanings of common idioms on this third grade reading worksheet.

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

Kids practice using idioms in this figurative language worksheet.

Determine the appropriate onomatopoeia for different situations in this engaging puzzle!

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.

In this grammar worksheet, learners will enjoy writing what each idiom means figuratively, then drawing a picture to illustrate its meaning.

In this engaging worksheet, learners will practice identifying, working with, and writing hyperboles.

In this two-page worksheet, learners will use context clues to decipher the meaning of idioms used on literal and non-literal contexts.

Young writers will work with animal metaphors as they plan and craft a poem about someone they know.

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

Children are introduced to Tennyson the Turtle, a reptile who likes to use metaphors and similes, in this appealing worksheet!

Identify irony in context in this helpful worksheet!