5th and 6th Grade Figurative Language Resources

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.

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!

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

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

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

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

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

Assess your students’ knowledge of the eight most common types of figurative language.

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

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

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

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

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

After finishing Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief, students reflect on the author's use of dialogue and literary techniques to drive the story.

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

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

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

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

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

Practice identifying hyperbole with this engaging winter-themed figurative language maze!

This grammar worksheet gives students a chance to study real examples of figurative language in context, including similes, metaphors, idioms, and personification.

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