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

Similes are all around us—sometimes you just need a little context to know how to decipher them! This lighthearted story about a twisted ankle contains two hidden similes. Can your students find them?

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

Inspire a love for creative language in fourth- and fifth-grade students!

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.

After completing this worksheet, you’ll know oxymorons inside out!

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

Discover the roadmap for your favorite stories with this middle-grade worksheet on plot archetypes!

Practice using onomatopoeia like hiss, squeak, and boom in this fun language puzzle!

Learn onomatopoeia while you experience an exciting video game quest!

Alliteration is a fun way to play with language! Use this resource with your students to practice identifying examples of alliteration

It's time to change boring to extraordinary with hyperbole magic! Your fifth graders will enjoy rewriting simple statements using hyperbole to exaggerate. Once they finish, they will be the smartest students in the world.

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

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

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

Children will practice bringing excitement to their writing in this fun figurative language worksheet.

In this worksheet, learners will practice identifying metaphors as they color in the logs that contain them.

Clap, splash, and zoom with this onomatopoeia crossword puzzle tailored for fourth and fifth graders!

Bring opposites together to form oxymorons in this worksheet on figurative language!

Don’t let allusions be your white whale; master them with the help of this middle school worksheet!

Practice using personification with this autumnal worksheet created for fifth through eighth graders!

Practice analyzing figurative language in context with this excerpt from C.S. Lewis’s classic fantasy novel, The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe!

Write an eloquent, nature-inspired personification poem with this guided worksheet for seventh graders!

Middle school students will become masters at decoding characters in their favorite stories after they complete this activity!

Unmask the cast of every story with this worksheet for middle schoolers on character archetypes!

Don’t let allusions be your Achilles’ heel—practice interpreting and writing them with this seventh- and eighth-grade worksheet!

Introduce readers to the poem “I like to see it lap the Miles” by beloved American poet Emily Dickinson.