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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

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

Hyperboles in History

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

Personification in Context

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

Idioms in Context

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

Metaphors in Poetry

This poem offers a fun, memorable example for students as they learn to interpret figurative language in works of poetry and literature.

Hyperbole in Poetry

Engage students in analysis by examining archetypes in fairy tales. Teach students to identify heroes and villains in fairy tales, examine patterns, and create their own fairy tales to express their knowledge of archetypes. 


Analyzing Archetypes in Fairy Tales

Alliteration is a type of figurative language that is often used in poetry. Use this classic poem with your students to practice identifying alliteration in context.

Figurative Language: Alliteration in Poetry

Explore figurative language and common expressions in this fifth-grade reading and writing game!

Dino Photoshoot: Figurative Language in Sentences

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

When your students read this silly poem, they will find examples of hyperbole. Then, they will make a connection to another language concept: superlatives!

More Hyperbole in Poetry

Collect examples of personification as you read with this helpful worksheet!

Personification: Examples in Context

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

Animal Sounds in Other Languages: Onomatopoeia Word Search

Kids help Muggo sort metaphors into emotions, actions, and appearances.

Metaphor Sorting in Muggo's Brain

Help kids learn about similes with this sorting game.

Sorting Similes in Muggo's Brain

Get to know figurative language like the back of your hand with this fifth-grade learning game!

Dino Bones: Using Figurative Language in Sentences

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

Hyperbole Story

Squeeze in some extra practice in word analysis, spelling, and punctuation with these engaging grammar worksheets.

Vocabulary Boosters

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

What Is a Metaphor?

Students will be as confident in writing as a Pulitzer Prize winner after completing this final exercise in the similes series.


Similes 3

Kids complete sentences with idioms in this worksheet.

Making Sense of Idioms

Kids categorize metaphors by type in this sorting game.

Muggo's Brain: Sorting Metaphors

Help Muggo sort metaphors in this categorization game.

Sorting Metaphors

Students will learn common animal sound words in different languages!

Animal Sounds Around the World

Kids practice using idioms in this figurative language worksheet.

Identify the Idiom

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

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

Onomatopoeia Crossword Puzzle #2

Children work with two forms of figurative language in this grammar worksheet.

Mixed Practice: Similes and Metaphors #2

Mixed Practice: Similes and Metaphors #1

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

Awesome Analogies

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