3rd - 8th Grade Figurative Language Resources

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

Practice analyzing figurative language in context with this excerpt from C.S. Lewis’s classic fantasy novel, The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe!

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

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.

Take an Earth Day-themed adventure through this figurative language maze!

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

Alliteration is a fun way to play with language! Use this resource with your students to practice identifying examples of alliteration

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

Learners discover the magic of figurative language in this reading and writing exercise.

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

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

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.

Get students thinking critically and creatively about character archetypes in the novels they’re reading with this engaging reading activity!

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

Use this worksheet to review figurative language! Students will write what they think each idiom on this worksheet means.

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.

This resource makes matching idioms as easy as pie! ​Students will pair idioms based on their identical meaning.

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

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

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

Introduce your students to some common English idioms and their meanings.

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!

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.

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.

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!

Children practice identifying and interpreting one type of figurative language, similes, in nine sample sentences.

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

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

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