Middle School Figurative Language Worksheets

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

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

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!

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.

Take an Earth Day-themed adventure through this 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 will use their background knowledge and sentence-based context clues to determine the meaning of common allusions.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Invite learners to practice identifying examples of hyperbole with this fun Earth Day maze!

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

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

Students make connections between classic and modern literature by identifying shared character archetypes found in each.

Students study real examples of verbal irony, puns, personification, and allusions in context with this eighth-grade worksheet! 

Get a taste of verbal irony with this figurative language worksheet in which students study the definitions and examples of sarcasm, exaggeration, and understatement.

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

Have your learners practice identifying hyperboles with this fun, seasonal figurative language maze.

Give your learners fun practice identifying hyperboles with this sweet figurative language maze.

Invite your learners to practice identifying hyperboles with this fun figurative language maze! 

Have a laugh (or a groan) with this fun figurative language worksheet all about puns!

Give your learners some fun figurative language practice with Halloween-themed metaphors!

This seventh-grade worksheet gives students a chance to study real examples of allusion (mythological, biblical, literary, or historical), simile, personification, or metaphor. 

Brush up on your figurative language skills this fall season with this engaging metaphors maze!