5th and 6th Grade Figurative Language Worksheets

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.

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

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

Give your learners some fun figurative language practice with Valentine's Day-themed similes!

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

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

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

Give your learners fun practice identifying hyperboles with this sweet 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Introduce your students to vocabulary words that will strengthen their descriptive writing!