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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Students will learn about the history of hyperbole in literature and politics.

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

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

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

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

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

After reading The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, challenge students to think about the symbolism of the costumes in the novel and get creative!

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