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Metaphor Worksheets : Page 2

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.

Metaphors in Context

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

Making Sense of Figurative Language 3

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

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.

Write Your Own Metaphors

Get students thinking figuratively by having them connect their understanding of metaphors and similes to the books they read in class. Students will seek out a metaphor or simile in their reading, consider the quote's context, then explain what they thin

Metaphor and Simile Search

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.

Making Metaphors

In this reading and writing worksheet about the poem “A Nation’s Strength” by William Ralph Emerson, students will use their understanding of figurative language to identify and define metaphors and difficult vocabulary.

A Nation’s Strength

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

Awesome Analogies

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Sense of Metaphors.

Glossary: Making Sense of Metaphors

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Sense of Metaphors.

Vocabulary Cards: Making Sense of Metaphors

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