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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Students make connections between classic and modern literature by identifying shared character archetypes found in each.

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

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

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

Get a taste of verbal irony with this figurative language worksheet in which students study the definitions and examples of sarcasm, exaggeration, and understatement.

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

Have a laugh (or a groan) with this fun figurative language worksheet all about puns!

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

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

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

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

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

After finishing Mildred D. Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, give students a chance to think about the significance of the symbols used in the novel.

After reading The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, challenge students to think about the symbolism of the costumes in the novel and get creative!

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

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

This middle school worksheet gives students a chance to study real examples of allusion (mythological, biblical, literary, or historical), simile, personification, or metaphor. 

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

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

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

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