4th - 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!

Introduce your students to eight common types of figurative language with this colorful exercise.

Use this resource with your students to practice using context clues to determine the meaning of idioms.

Let's get as silly as a goose with these similes! Students will get creative as they finish simple similes with this introductory worksheet. After they finish, give them a chance to share their favorites with the class!

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

Kids complete sentences with idioms in this worksheet.

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

In this grammar worksheet, learners will enjoy writing what each idiom means figuratively, then drawing a picture to illustrate its meaning.

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

Your kids will have fun learning about hyperbole and writing some of their own exaggerations along the way!

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

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

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.

Students study real examples of verbal irony, puns, personification, and allusions in context with this middle grades worksheet! 

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!

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