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5th Grade Figurative Language Resources

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

Figurative Language Handout

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

Figurative Language Maze: Winter Similes

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

Figurative Language Maze: Summer Similes

In this engaging reading comprehension worrksheet, learners read an original two-page story and answer a set of comprehension questions.

Reading Comprehension: No Sudden Moves

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

Animal Sounds in Other Languages: Onomatopoeia Word Search

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

Mixed Practice: Similes and Metaphors #1

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.

Match the Meaning

Assess your students’ knowledge of the eight most common types of figurative language.

Figurative Language: Figure It Out!

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!

Scrambled Similes

In this mid-year assessment, students will apply their language arts knowledge to a broad set of problems.

Mixed Review Language Arts Assessment

Practice analyzing poetry with&nbsp;one of Emily Dickinson&rsquo;s most popular poems!

Analyzing Poetry:  “‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers" by Emily Dickinson

Descriptive language and metaphoric phrases take the spotlight in this workbook. Kids use new vocabulary and common phrases to tackle writing skills.

Figurative Language

Give a cultural lesson and expand your students’ vocabulary at the same time with this idioms exercise.


Idioms 2

Mixed Practice: Similes and Metaphors #2

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

Figurative Language Maze: Fall Similes

Every educator eschews un-exciting educational exercises; employ this Education.com exercise for an entertaining and eventful lesson on alliteration!


Alliteration

Students will have a blast playing with this exercise that shows how spelling onomatopoeias comes from real-life sounds.


Onomatopoeia

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

Examples of Hyperbole! Part 1

Help students learn how to categorize objects with this exercise that educates them about oxymorons.


Oxymoron

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

Hyperbole in Poetry

Students will be able to creatively apply metaphors to their discussions after they complete this exercise.


Metaphors 3

There’s nothing greater than a student who can appreciate a pun activity when they play one.


Students will be as confident in writing as a Pulitzer Prize winner after completing this final exercise in the similes series.


Similes 3

Students will finally have a name to describe the “dog ate my homework” storytelling that runs rampant throughout childhood with this hyperbole exercise.


Hyperbole

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

Identical Idioms

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

Hyperboles in History

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

Review: Metaphors and Similes

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

Hyperbole Story

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.

Similes: Clear as Crystal

As students begin to read more sophisticated texts, understanding how authors use figurative language becomes critical. In this unit, students will revisit some of the figurative language they learned in fourth grade and also study some new ones too, including onomatopoeia, hyperbole, puns and oxymorons. Analyzing how figurative language is used in texts will help readers apply what they have learned.

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