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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

Get students thinking critically and creatively about character archetypes in the novels they’re reading with this engaging reading activity!

Students study real examples of verbal irony, puns, personification, and allusions in context with this middle grades worksheet! 

Use this worksheet to review figurative language! Students will write what they think each idiom on this worksheet means.

As quiet as a mouse or as quiet as a cucumber? Kids will learn the definition of a simile, then use pictures as clues to complete the similes.

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

Have fun with hyperbole in this funny fill-in story-writing worksheet!

Introduce your students to these common English idioms, used in the context of a sentence.

Challenge your students to use what they know about idioms to find the double meaning in these silly puns. They will ‘get a kick’ out of it!

Children read a passage from L. Frank Baum's classic The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, then answer a series of questions in this reading comprehension worksheet.

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 worksheet, students will read Carl Sandburg's poem "Fog," then analyze the poem for figurative language.

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.

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

Your mind will burst with knowledge after completing this hyperbole activity! Turn normal skills and traits into larger-than-life abilities using exaggeration.

Play around with word sounds in this figurative language worksheet! Learn to identify assonance and consonance, two common poetic devices.

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

Your students will have fun identifying the homophones in these hilarious puns!

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

Introduce learners to this fun form of figurative language with this entertaining worksheet.