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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Can you hear the dogs barking and the birds chirping in the park? Study onomatopoeia in this worksheet! 

Kids complete sentences with idioms in this worksheet.

Kids practice using idioms in this figurative language worksheet.

Crash into onomatopoeia practice in this engaging worksheet!

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.

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

Bring opposites together to form oxymorons in this worksheet on figurative language!

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

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

This worksheet provides great practice for students to use alliteration in their writing.

Students will laugh as they practice using alliteration in this fun writing worksheet.

Let spring blossoms teach you a lesson on personification in this cheery worksheet!