Figurative Language Worksheets : Page 3

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

Introduce your students to analogies with this fun, fill-in-the-blank worksheet!

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

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

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.

Introduce your students to these common English idioms, used in the context of a sentence.

Children will discover how figurative language can enliven writing in this fun cut-and-paste worksheet.

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

Challenge your students to find the definitions of each homograph that give these puns their double meaning.

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

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

Help your EL students use linking words to write similes!

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

Use this worksheet to teach your students to write compound sentences with the support of sentence frames as they differentiate between literal and nonliteral meanings of idioms. Don’t forget the context clues!

Children will love coming up with creative drawings that depict common idioms literally in this engaging grammar worksheet.

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

Use this activity to help students find and decipher metaphors in the context of short passages. Students will read the passages, record what is being compared in each, and then seek to explain the metaphors' meanings in their own words.

Search this puzzle for animal onomatopoeias. An onomatopoeia is a word that imitates the sound that it's describing. These words are sounds made by animals!

Give kids a chance to think creatively about metaphors by letting them write their own! Students will stretch their imaginations and figurative language skills as they think of ways to describe their class, bedroom, and more.

In this grammar worksheet, learners will enjoy writing what each idiom means figuratively, then drawing a picture to illustrate its meaning.

Help your students identify if alliteration is used in these funny sentences!

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

Successful students set sail with alliteration! Use this resource with your students to practice writing sentences using alliteration.

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

Having fun with words and sounds! Extend your students’ experience with onomatopoeia by giving them words to sort and asking them to identify how an author could use specific words in their writing.

Kids complete sentences with idioms in this worksheet.

In this worksheet, students will read Carl Sandburg's poem "Fog," then analyze the poem for figurative language.

Give your learners some fun figurative language practice with Halloween-themed similes!

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

After introducing similes, give kids a chance to be creative with this writing activity! Students will have fun comparing all kinds of things of their choosing using the prompts, and you'll love watching them use and grow their figurative language skills.