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2nd - 6th Grade Common Core Literary Devices and Figurative Language Educational Resources

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

Figurative Language Handout

Students hone their language and grammar skills with this fun, winter-themed figurative language maze!

Figurative Language Maze: Winter Similes

Practice analyzing figurative language in context with this excerpt from C.S. Lewis&rsquo;s classic fantasy novel, <em>The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe</em>!

Targeted Reading Skills Practice: Figurative Language in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Give your learners some fun figurative language practice with this worksheet featuring summer-themed similes!

Figurative Language Maze: Summer Similes

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

Figurative Language Practice

In this engaging reading comprehension worrksheet, learners read an original two-page story and answer a set of comprehension questions.

Reading Comprehension: No Sudden Moves

Take an Earth Day-themed adventure through this figurative language maze!

Figurative Language Maze: Earth Day Similes

Assess your students’ knowledge of the eight most common types of figurative language.

Figurative Language: Figure It Out!

Children work with two forms of figurative language in this grammar worksheet.

Mixed Practice: Similes and Metaphors #1

If someone loses their glasses, are they as blind as a bee or a bat? This fill-in-the-blank worksheet introduces your child to popular similes.

Similes: Easy as Pie

This worksheet will help your child understand what similes are, and she'll even get to use her imagination to write some of her own!

Scrambled Similes

Help students hone reading comprehension skills and techniques with this&nbsp;classic Robert Frost poem.

Reading Poetry: The Road Not Taken

Practice analyzing poetry with&nbsp;one of Emily Dickinson&rsquo;s most popular poems!

Analyzing Poetry:  “‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers" by Emily Dickinson

If your students need support in matching obscure words with the deeper meaning, invite them to use the clues on this worksheet to match words and phrases with their corresponding meanings.

Match the Meaning

Practice identifying hyperbole with this engaging winter-themed figurative language maze!

Figurative Language Maze: Winter Hyperbole

Practice identifying metaphors with this fun, winter-themed figurative language maze!

Figurative Language Maze: Winter Metaphors

Discover why an odd-looking tree is known as Africa’s "tree of life" with this reading comprehension worksheet.

Informational Reading Comprehension: Baobab, Tree of Life

Use this resource with your students to practice using context clues to determine the meaning of idioms.

Figurative Language: Idioms

Introduce students to the world of idioms with this exercise that shares some of the most common expressions in the English language.


Idioms 1

Once students get underway with this Education.com exercise, learning about similes is easy as pie.


Similes 1

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

Hyperbole in Poetry

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

Examples of Hyperbole! Part 1

Practice identifying metaphors with this fun, summer-themed figurative language maze!

Figurative Language Maze: Summer Metaphors

Can you tell the difference between a simile and a metaphor? Students will seek to distinguish between—and determine the meanings of—simple similes and metaphors with this multiple choice activity.

Simile or Metaphor

In this mid-year assessment, students will apply their language arts knowledge to a broad set of problems.

Mixed Review Language Arts Assessment

Your students will be all smiles when learning how to compare objects with this similes exercise.


Similes 2

This grammar worksheet gives students a chance to study real examples of figurative language in context, including similes, metaphors, idioms, and personification.

Figurative Language in Context #1

Alliteration is a type of figurative language that is often used in poetry. Use this classic poem with your students to practice identifying alliteration in context.

Figurative Language: Alliteration in Poetry

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

Review: Metaphors and Similes

Give a cultural lesson and expand your students’ vocabulary at the same time with this idioms exercise.


Idioms 2

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2nd - 6th Grade Common Core Literary Devices and Figurative Language Educational Resources

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