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

Brush up on your figurative language skills this fall season with this engaging metaphors maze!

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

Give your learners some fun figurative language practice with Halloween-themed metaphors!

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Encourage creativity and critical thinking about the characters in The Hunger Games with this artistic extension activity!

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

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

Have your learners practice identifying hyperboles with this fun figurative language maze.

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.

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

Are you so hungry you could eat a horse? Your students will have fun identifying the examples of hyperbole and idioms in this worksheet.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Give your learners fun practice identifying hyperboles with this sweet figurative language maze.

When your students read this silly poem, they will find examples of hyperbole. Then, they will make a connection to another language concept: superlatives!

Help your EL students use linking words to write similes!

Young writers will work with animal metaphors as they plan and craft a poem about someone they know.

Students will learn to identify onomatopoeia using a word bank and context clues.