5th - 7th Grade Figurative Language Resources : Page 2

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Introduce readers to the poem "The Song of Wandering Aengus" by William Butler Yeats with this poetry analysis worksheet!
 

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.

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

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

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.

Search this puzzle for onomatopoeias of animal sounds in other languages! How do they compare to the onomatopoeias you know?

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

Introduce your students to vocabulary words that will strengthen their descriptive writing!

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

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

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!

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!

Engage your students with food puns to excite their appetites and brains!

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