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

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

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

Invite your learners to practice identifying hyperboles with this fun figurative language maze! 

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

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

Help your students understand figurative language as they practice identifying homonyms!

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

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.

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

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

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.

In this fun worksheet, students will get to practice using both homophones and homonyms as they identify and write puns!

Use this worksheet to provide students with even more practice using both homophones and homonyms as they identify and write their own puns!

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

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.

Students will be rolling with laughter as they read and write their own puns!

Students will look at hilarious puns and how they use homonyms and homophones.

It's time to let loose and get silly with this fun figurative language exercise! This worksheet will let your students stretch their creativity as they practice using homonyms to write their own puns.

Help your students use homonyms to write their own puns as they practice using figurative language with this fun activity!

Help your budding wordsmiths develop their figurative language skills with this fun pun activity! This is a great worksheet for students to practice identifying and using homophones as they work to create their very own puns!

Help your EL students use linking words to write similes!

Students will get even better at creating punny sentences as they use homonyms!

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

Having fun with words and sounds! Extend your students’ experience with onomatopoeia by giving them words to sort and asking them to identify how an author could use specific words in their writing.

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

Introduce your students to visual puns with these fun images! Then, challenge them to come up with their own visual puns.

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.

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.

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