2nd - 8th Grade Figurative Language Worksheets

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.

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

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.

BOOM! This worksheet is full of all kinds of sound-based words, from creaks to squeaks.

Students hone their ability to spot literary devices with this fun, winter-themed figurative language maze!

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

Introduce your students to eight common types of figurative language with this colorful exercise.

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

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.

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

Help your writing sing with personification! Practice identifying the different examples of personification in this poem by Emily Dickinson.

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

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

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

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!

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

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

Alliteration is a fun way to play with language! Use this resource with your students to practice identifying examples of alliteration

After finishing Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief, students reflect on the author's use of dialogue and literary techniques to drive the story.

Learners will use their background knowledge and sentence-based context clues to determine the meaning of common allusions.

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.

This resource makes matching idioms as easy as pie! ​Students will pair idioms based on their identical meaning.

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

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.

Middle school writers practice rewriting sentences using personification to add description and make the sentences more exciting!

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

Aren't alliterations awesome? Have a little phonics fun by finishing these alliterations.

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