Middle School Figurative Language Worksheets

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!

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

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

Introduce readers to the poem “We Wear the Mask” by Paul Laurence Dunbar with this poetry analysis worksheet!
 

Students read a two-page adaptation of "The Gift of the Magi" and dig deep into the figurative language and literary devices of this classic story!

Examine the theme of beauty while reading and analyzing two different poems in this two-page worksheet for middle grades! 

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

Give your students experience with reading and analyzing primary sources with this powerful excerpt from the memoir of Frederick Douglass.

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

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

In this reading comprehension worksheet, learners compare and contrast two poems, focusing on structure, tone, and literary devices used in each.

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

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

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

Introduce readers to the poem “O Captain! My Captain!” by American poet Walt Whitman with this seventh-grade reading comprehension worksheet! 

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!

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

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

Introduce readers to the poem "The Song of Wandering Aengus" by William Butler Yeats with this poetry analysis worksheet!
 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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