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

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

Students will learn to identify and interpret similes, metaphors, and personification in writing.

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

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

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

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

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!

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

Children are introduced to Tennyson the Turtle, a reptile who likes to use metaphors and similes, in this appealing worksheet!

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

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

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

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

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

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

After finishing Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief, students reflect on the author's use of dialogue and literary techniques to drive the story.

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

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

Introduce your students to these common English idioms, used in the context of a sentence.

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

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

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

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

Students will learn about the history of hyperbole in literature and politics.

What does "when pigs fly" mean if pigs can't really fly? Kids use context clues to learn the meanings of common idioms on this third grade reading worksheet.

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.

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

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.