5th - 7th Grade Figurative Language Worksheets

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

This grammar worksheet gives students a chance to study real examples of figurative language in context, including similes, metaphors, idioms, and personification.

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.

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.

Invite learners to practice identifying examples of hyperbole with this fun Earth Day maze!

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

Practice identifying hyperbole with this engaging winter-themed figurative language maze!