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2nd - 6th Grade Figurative Language Worksheets

Help students learn and remember key types of figurative language with this convenient handout!

Figurative Language Handout

Give your learners some fun figurative language practice with this worksheet featuring summer-themed similes!

Figurative Language Maze: Summer Similes

Practice analyzing figurative language in context with this excerpt from C.S. Lewis&rsquo;s classic fantasy novel, <em>The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe</em>!

Targeted Reading Skills Practice: Figurative Language in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

If your students need support in matching obscure words with the deeper meaning, invite them to use the clues on this worksheet to match words and phrases with their corresponding meanings.

Match the Meaning

BOOM! This worksheet is full of all kinds of sound-based words, from creaks to squeaks.

What is Onomatopoeia?

Practice identifying metaphors with this fun, summer-themed figurative language maze!

Figurative Language Maze: Summer Metaphors

Assess your students&rsquo; knowledge of the eight most common types of figurative language.

Figurative Language: Figure It Out!

Students will learn to identify and interpret similes, metaphors, and personification in writing.

Figurative Language Practice

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

Mixed Practice: Similes and Metaphors #1

This worksheet will help your child understand what similes are, and she&#39;ll even get to use her imagination to write some of her own!

Scrambled Similes

Students hone their ability to spot literary devices with this fun, winter-themed figurative language maze!

Figurative Language Maze: Winter Similes

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

Fun with Puns

In this fun worksheet, students will get to practice using both homophones and homonyms as they identify and write puns!

Puzzling Puns

Use this worksheet to provide students with even more practice using both homophones and homonyms as they identify and write their own puns!

More Puzzling Puns

Students will get even better at creating punny sentences as they use homonyms!

More Fun with Puns

If someone loses their glasses, are they as blind as a bee or a bat? This fill-in-the-blank worksheet introduces your child to popular similes.

Similes: Easy as Pie

Learn all about the history of candles with this two-page nonfiction reading worksheet!

Informational Reading Comprehension: History of the Candle

Learners will have fun honing their language and grammar skills with this fall-themed figurative language maze!

Figurative Language Maze: Fall Similes

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

Figurative Language Maze: Summer Hyperbole

Practice analyzing poetry with&nbsp;one of Emily Dickinson&rsquo;s most popular poems!

Analyzing Poetry:  “‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers" by Emily Dickinson

Help your writing sing with personification! Practice identifying the different examples of personification in this poem by Emily Dickinson.

What Is Personification?

Children are introduced to Tennyson the Turtle, a reptile who likes to use metaphors and similes, in this appealing worksheet!

Metaphors and Similes

Practice identifying metaphors with this fun, winter-themed figurative language maze!

Figurative Language Maze: Winter Metaphors

What does "when pigs fly" mean if pigs can't really fly? Kids use context clues to learn the meanings of common idioms on this third grade reading worksheet.

Idioms: A Figure of Speech

Middle school writers practice rewriting sentences using personification to add description and make the sentences more exciting!

Personification to Enhance Writing

Hone reading comprehension and analysis skills with this worksheet featuring a French fairy tale about a prince, a curse, and the importance of recognizing one&#39;s own flaws.

Extended Reading Comprehension: Excerpt Adapted From “Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess”

Can you tell the difference between a simile and a metaphor? Students will seek to distinguish between—and determine the meanings of—simple similes and metaphors with this multiple choice activity.

Simile or Metaphor

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

Figurative Language Maze: Fall Hyperbole

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

Examples of Hyperbole! Part 1

Mixed Practice: Similes and Metaphors #2

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