3rd - 8th Grade Figurative Language Resources : Page 3

Similes are all around us—sometimes you just need a little context to know how to decipher them! This lighthearted story about a twisted ankle contains two hidden similes. Can your students find them?

Many idioms are a dime a dozen. Give kids a chance to flex their figurative language skills and creativity by having them write and illustrate their very own idioms. Students will find that time really does fly when they're having fun!

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!

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

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!

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

Learners will have fun honing their language and grammar skills with this fall-themed figurative language maze!

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.

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

Students will learn about the history of hyperbole in literature and politics.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Learners will practice identifying and decoding figurative language as they read and decipher five practice sentences.

Alliteration is a type of figurative language that is often used to engage a reader’s senses. Use this resource with your students to practice identifying examples of alliteration in context.

Get plenty of practice with alliteration by identifying and creating alliterative sentences.

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

Challenge your students to find the definitions of each homograph that give these puns their double meaning.

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

Put all your Easter eggs in this worksheet! Help your students use the context of a sentence to discover the meaning of these Easter idioms.

Young writers will work with animal metaphors as they plan and craft a poem about someone they know.

Teach your students about contradictory phrases that go by the funny sounding name of "oxymoron." After your students match two words together to make oxymorons, they’ll write their own creative sentences using this fun figurative language

Puns offer kids the chance to have fun with figurative language! Your students will giggle as they find homophones in each of these silly puns.

Get students thinking figuratively by having them connect their understanding of metaphors and similes to the books they read in class. Students will seek out a metaphor or simile in their reading, consider the quote's context, then explain what they