7th Grade Metaphor Educational Resources

Let your figurative language skills blossom with this middle-grade springtime metaphor maze! 

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

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

Introduce readers to the poem “We Wear the Mask” by Paul Laurence Dunbar with this poetry analysis worksheet!
 

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

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

Introduce readers to the poem "The Song of Wandering Aengus" by William Butler Yeats with this poetry analysis worksheet!
 

Introduce readers to the poem “O Captain! My Captain!” by American poet Walt Whitman with this seventh-grade reading comprehension worksheet! 

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

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

Celebrate our planet with this Earth Day-themed metaphors maze!

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

Use this discussion guide to support students’ comprehension and analysis of chapters 5–8 of S.E. Hinton’s novel The Outsiders.