5th Grade Figurative Language Worksheets

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

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

Help your EL students use linking words to write similes!

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