Figurative Language Resources : Page 4

Students will read metaphors and identify how the two things being compared are alike.

Introduce readers to the poem “O Captain! My Captain!” by American poet Walt Whitman with this seventh-grade reading comprehension worksheet! 

Search this puzzle for animal onomatopoeias. An onomatopoeia is a word that imitates the sound that it's describing. These words are sounds made by animals!

Students make connections between classic and modern literature by identifying shared character archetypes found in each.

Help your EL students use linking words to write similes!

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

Introduce your students to these common English idioms, used in the context of a sentence.

Use this worksheet to review figurative language! Students will write what they think each idiom on this worksheet means.

This is a hilarious worksheet for students to dive into as they hone their figurative language skills! Young wordsmiths will practice identifying the differences between homonyms and homophones as they analyze puns.

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

Use this activity to help students find and decipher metaphors in the context of short passages. Students will read the passages, record what is being compared in each, and then seek to explain the metaphors' meanings in their own words.

These similes got mixed up! With this simile worksheet, students will choose from a selection of words to complete the scrambled similes.

Your mind will burst with knowledge after completing this hyperbole activity! Turn normal skills and traits into lager-than-life abilities using exaggeration.

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.

Search this puzzle for onomatopoeias of animal sounds in other languages! How do they compare to the onomatopoeias you know?

In this worksheet, students will read Carl Sandburg's poem "Fog," then analyze the poem for figurative language.

Give your learners fun practice identifying hyperboles with this sweet figurative language maze.

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

In this exercise, students will use linking verbs to write metaphors with support.

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.

This seventh-grade worksheet gives students a chance to study real examples of allusion (mythological, biblical, literary, or historical), simile, personification, or metaphor. 

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

Metaphors are imaginative ways to describe something by comparing that thing to something else. With this worksheet, students will write a metaphor for each pair of given words.

Use this worksheet to teach your students to write compound sentences with the support of sentence frames as they differentiate between literal and nonliteral meanings of idioms. Don’t forget the context clues!

After introducing similes, give kids a chance to be creative with this writing activity! Students will have fun comparing all kinds of things of their choosing using the prompts, and you'll love watching them use and grow their figurative language skills.

Successful students set sail with alliteration! Use this resource with your students to practice writing sentences using alliteration.