Figurative Language Worksheets : Page 4

Children read a passage from L. Frank Baum's classic The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, then answer a series of questions in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Ideal for fourth and fifth graders, this worksheet includes figurative language examples and definitions on the first page, and a second full page of questions and tasks that can be used to check for understanding.

Your students will have fun identifying the homophones in these hilarious puns!

Alliteration is a type of figurative language that is often used to engage a reader’s senses. Use this resource with your students to practice identifying examples of alliteration in context.

This exercise will get your students inferring the meaning of unknown metaphors.

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

Challenge your students to use what they know about idioms to find the double meaning in these silly puns. They will ‘get a kick’ out of it!

Your mind will burst with knowledge after completing this hyperbole activity! Turn normal skills and traits into lager-than-life abilities using exaggeration.

In this worksheet, children read Danish storyteller Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale The Snowdrop, reimagined here as a drama.

Are you as quick as lightning? Learn about similes with this fun activity. Pick a simile and draw a picture to represent it.

When your students read this exaggerated tale, they will find a ton of hyperboles!

In this engaging worksheet, learners will practice identifying, working with, and writing hyperboles.

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

Teach your students about hyperbole using music! First, let them practice interpreting hyperboles. Then, play a song (or provide lyrics) and invite them to listen for an example of hyperbole.

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

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

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

Engage your students with food puns to excite their appetites and brains!

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

Are you so hungry you could eat a horse? Your students will have fun identifying the examples of hyperbole and idioms in this worksheet.

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

Help your students understand figurative language as they practice identifying homonyms!

Students will learn common animal sound words in different languages!

These similes got mixed up! With this simile worksheet, students will choose from a selection of words to complete the scrambled similes.

Students will learn to identify onomatopoeia using a word bank and context clues.

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

Metaphors are imaginative ways to describe something by comparing that thing to something else. With this worksheet, students will write a metaphor for each pair of given words.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Idioms.

This worksheet is a beast! That's a metaphor, and your child will be writing their own metaphors in no time, then they can use them in a poem.