Give your learners some fun figurative language practice with Valentine's Day-themed similes!

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

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

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.

Learners will have fun honing their language and grammar skills with this fall-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.

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

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

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

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

After finishing Mildred D. Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, give students a chance to think about the significance of the symbols used in the novel.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

If your students need more practice with onomatopoeia, this worksheet will provide them with examples of common animal sounds and related contexts.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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!

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.

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

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