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

In this worksheet, learners will practice identifying metaphors as they color in the logs that contain them.

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

Identify irony in context in this helpful worksheet!

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

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

Bring opposites together to form oxymorons in this worksheet on figurative language!

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

Practice identifying similes like a seasoned expert with this fun, spring-themed maze!

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

Practice using personification with this autumnal worksheet created for fifth through eighth graders!

Strengthen reading comprehension and literary analysis skills with this sixth through eighth grade foreshadowing worksheet!

Write an eloquent, nature-inspired personification poem with this guided worksheet for seventh graders!

Explore figurative language in context with this personification worksheet designed for fifth through eigth graders! 

Practice using onomatopoeia like hiss, squeak, and boom in this fun language puzzle!

Fall for figurative language with this engaging worksheet that helps students master the art of personification!

Become as clever as a fox as you learn to identify and interpret similes and metaphors!

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

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

Unmask the cast of every story with this worksheet for middle schoolers on character archetypes!