2nd - 7th Grade Metaphor Worksheets

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

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

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

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

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

Practice analyzing poetry with one of Emily Dickinson’s most popular poems!

Children are introduced to Tennyson the Turtle, a reptile who likes to use metaphors and similes, in this appealing worksheet!

Introduce readers to the poem “We Wear the Mask” by Paul Laurence Dunbar with this poetry analysis worksheet!
 

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.

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

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

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

Introduce readers to the poem "The Song of Wandering Aengus" by William Butler Yeats with this poetry analysis worksheet!
 

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

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

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.

Brush up on your figurative language skills this fall season with this engaging metaphors maze!

Your students will infer the meaning of unknown figurative language examples by using context clues.

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.

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

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.

Give your learners some fun figurative language practice with Halloween-themed metaphors!

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.

Ideal for fourth and fifth graders, this worksheet includes figurative language examples and definitions on the first page, and a second full page of questions and tasks that can be used to check for understanding.

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

This exercise will get your students inferring the meaning of unknown metaphors.

This worksheet is a beast! That's a metaphor, and your child will be writing their own metaphors in no time, then they can use them in a poem.

Introduce your students to analogies with this fun, fill-in-the-blank worksheet!

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.

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.