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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.

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

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

Use this awfully good worksheet about using an oxymoron to inspire creative writing.

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

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

Your kids will have fun learning about hyperbole and writing some of their own exaggerations along the way!

Have some fun with the alphabet as you learn all about alliteration! Create an alliteration for every letter of the alphabet.

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

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

Get students thinking critically and creatively about character archetypes in the novels they’re reading with this engaging reading activity!

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!

Read and answer comprehension questions about Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's classic narrative poem "Paul Revere’s Ride."

After reading The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, challenge students to think about the symbolism of the costumes in the novel and get creative!

In this reading and writing worksheet about the poem “A Nation’s Strength” by William Ralph Emerson, students will use their understanding of figurative language to identify and define metaphors and difficult vocabulary.

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 kids a chance to think creatively about metaphors by letting them write their own! Students will stretch their imaginations and figurative language skills as they think of ways to describe their class, bedroom, and more.

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 tool.

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.

Read and analyze an excerpt adapted from “The Wreck of the Golden Mary” by Charles Dickens with this reading comprehension worksheet!

Put your creative side to work with this fun writing activity!

Examine the theme of beauty while reading and analyzing two different poems in this two-page worksheet for middle grades! 

Explore figurative language in context with this personification worksheet designed for fifth through eigth graders! 

As your students read these silly limericks, they’ll identify examples of hyperbole.

Engage your students with eggciting wordplay and food puns!

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.

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