5th - 7th Grade Common Core Figurative Language Resources

If your students need support in matching obscure words with the deeper meaning, invite them to use the clues on this worksheet to match words and phrases with their corresponding meanings.

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!

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

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

Children work with two forms of figurative language in this grammar worksheet.

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

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

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!

Introduce readers to the poem “We Wear the Mask” by Paul Laurence Dunbar with this poetry analysis worksheet!
 

Students read a two-page adaptation of "The Gift of the Magi" and dig deep into the figurative language and literary devices of this classic story!

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

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

Examine the theme of beauty while reading and analyzing two different poems in this two-page worksheet for middle grades! 

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

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

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

In this reading comprehension worksheet, learners compare and contrast two poems, focusing on structure, tone, and literary devices used in each.

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

Children work with two forms of figurative language in this grammar worksheet.

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

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

Introduce readers to the poem “O Captain! My Captain!” by American poet Walt Whitman with this seventh-grade reading comprehension worksheet! 

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