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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Learn about common patterns in storytelling with this middle-grade worksheet!

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.

Can you hear the dogs barking and the birds chirping in the park? Study onomatopoeia in this worksheet! 

Get ready, this activity transforms middle school students into experts at understanding and decoding characters in all their favorite stories!

Why is the math book so sad? It has too many problems! Help your students bring puns to life by having them create visuals to represent the play on words. Kids will have a blast reading the puns and making their own illustrations to accompany them.

Use this worksheet for more practice identifying alliteration.

Determine the appropriate onomatopoeia for different situations in this engaging puzzle!

This wonderful worksheet is a great way for students to practice using alliteration!

It's time to let loose and get silly with this fun figurative language exercise! This worksheet will let your students stretch their creativity as they practice using homonyms to write their own puns.

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

An oxymoron is a figure of speech made up of words with very different meanings. In this creative writing activity, students will put their figurative language skills to the test as they craft a story using some catchy contradictory phrases!

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

EL students will read similes and identify how the two things being compared are alike.

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

Engage your students with eggciting wordplay and food puns!

With this worksheet, your fifth graders will add feeling to their writing by using hyperbole. Hyperbole is an extreme exaggeration that adds emphasis and humor for extra effect. Once they complete this worksheet, they will be masters of hyperbole.

Play around with word sounds in this figurative language worksheet! Learn to identify assonance and consonance, two common poetic devices.

Children practice identifying and interpreting one type of figurative language, similes, in nine sample sentences.

In this two-page worksheet, learners will use context clues to decipher the meaning of idioms used on literal and non-literal contexts.

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

Teach your students about contradictory phrases that go by the funny sounding name of "oxymoron." After your students match two words together to make oxymorons, they’ll write their own creative sentences using this fun figurative language