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Literary Devices and Figurative Language Worksheets : Page 4

As quiet as a mouse or as quiet as a cucumber? Kids will learn the definition of a simile, then use pictures as clues to complete the similes.

Similes: Clear as Crystal

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

Figurative Language in Context #2

Have fun with hyperbole in this funny fill-in story-writing worksheet!

Hyperbole Story

Use this discussion guide to support students&rsquo; comprehension and analysis of chapters 1&ndash;4 of S.E. Hinton&rsquo;s novel <em>The Outsiders</em>.

Novel Study: The Outsiders: Discussion Guide #1

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

Examples of Hyperbole! Part 2

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

Idioms: Explaining Literal and Nonliteral Language

Kids complete sentences with idioms in this worksheet.

Making Sense of Idioms

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

Determine the Meaning of Common Allusions #2

Students study real examples of verbal irony, puns, personification, and allusions in context with this eighth-grade worksheet! 

Figurative Language in Context #3

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

Verbal Irony

Your kids will have fun learning about hyperbole and writing some of their own exaggerations along the way!

Having Fun with Hyperbole

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

Reading & Understanding Metaphors

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!

Literal and Nonliteral Language

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

Puns with Homographs

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

Writing Metaphors with Linking Verbs

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

Examples of Similes

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

Making Sense of Figurative Language 3

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

Is It Alliteration?

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

Puns in Context

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

Archetypes in Modern Literature

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!

Puns with Idioms

Put all your Easter eggs in this worksheet! Help your students use the context of a sentence to discover the meaning of these Easter idioms.

Easy Easter Idioms

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.

Figurative Language: Alliteration in Context

How is a grapefruit like a moon? They are both round! Students will identify which items are being compared in a metaphor, then describe one way they are alike.

Metaphors

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

Mixed-Up 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.

Animal Metaphors

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

Fun with Puns

Kids practice using idioms in this figurative language worksheet.

Identify the Idiom

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.

Analyzing a Passage from The Wizard of Oz

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

Practice Onomatopoeia!

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