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 will learn to identify and interpret similes, metaphors, and personification in writing.

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

This worksheet is a slam dunk for metaphors! Your young writer will learn what makes up a metaphor, and then practice making a few of their own.

Your mind will burst with knowledge after completing this hyperbole activity! Turn normal skills and traits into larger-than-life abilities using exaggeration.

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

What does "when pigs fly" mean if pigs can't really fly? Kids use context clues to learn the meanings of common idioms on this third grade reading worksheet.

When your students read this exaggerated tale, they will find a ton of hyperboles!

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.

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

Are you so hungry you could eat a horse? Your students will have fun identifying the examples of hyperbole and idioms in this 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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