4th Grade Figurative Language Worksheets

Thanks to our free, printable 4th grade figurative language worksheets, kids can fluently use wide-ranging literary devices and techniques to add meaning, clarity, and impact to their writing and consequently enhance sensory response. From alliteration and analogies to similes and metaphors, there’s plenty for young writers to choose from.

Explaining Idioms - Cut and Glue

Peel back layers upon layers of wit and humor to meticulously decode each idiom. Cut out the word cards containing the explanations and glue them against the correct idioms.

Completing Alliterative Tongue Twisters

Go on an alliterating spree by completing these tongue twisters choosing correct words from the word box in this part of our printable figurative language worksheets for grade 4.

Completing Sports Analogies

Give your figurative language practice a welcome fillip by completing these sports analogies using words that perfectly fit in the comparison spectrum.

Identifying Homographs as Nouns or Verbs

These printable figurative language worksheets for 4th grade capitalize on the noun-verb aspects of words like "glue" and "park", tasking kids with determining if these homographs, as used, are nouns or verbs.

Completing Sentences with Correct Homophones

Put your practice in homophonic mode as you read each sentence and identify which of the two homographs given best fits in.

Completing Sentences with Correct Homophones

Writing Idioms for Pictures

These illustrations might seem complicated at first, but they can be a lot of fun when kids start writing idioms keeping the pictures front and center.

Matching Metaphors to Their Meanings

Activate kids' imagination using the metaphorical language in these grade 4 figurative language worksheets pdf, where the task is for children to match each metaphor to its meaning.

Writing Onomatopoeic Words

Given below are names of animals, objects, places, or processes; kids must write three onomatopoeic words representing each animal, object, place, or process.

Writing Onomatopoeic Words

Matching Pictures to Proverbs or Adages

Whether it's teaching morals or offering advice, proverbs are your go-to expressions; explore these grade 4 figurative language worksheets pdf as you match each picture to an apt proverb or adage.

Completing Sentences with Rhyming Words

Every time kids pick a word that rhymes with the highlighted word to complete each sentence, they'll listen closely for sounds within words.

Completing Sentences Using Given Similes

Remind yourself to grammatically alter each sentence as appropriate when you pick from the given similes to complete the sentences in our 4th grade figurative language worksheets pdf.

Completing Sentences Using Given Similes

Writing Alliterative Words

Let kids give their alliterative skill free rein by writing for each word four words that begin with the same sound, creating a spring of instant alliteration.

Writing Alliterative Words

Completing Example-Category Analogies

Continue to explore how analogies compare things by bringing to the fore a line of relationship as you complete analogies based on the example-category type.

Completing Example-Category Analogies

Filling in the Blanks Choosing Correct Homophones

Reverberating in every nook and cranny of this section on filling the blanks choosing from the given homophones are words that forever sound the same.

Filling in the Blanks Choosing Correct Homophones

Writing Sentences Using Idioms

Give kids a refreshing way to express themselves in the form of these idioms, which they will write sentences with in an attempt to let their English sound as natural as possible.