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Figurative Language Worksheets : Page 3

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.

All About Metaphors

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

Verbal Irony

Give students a chance to engage with a classic science fiction story while practicing crucial reading comprehension skills!

Extended Reading Comprehension: Excerpt Adapted From “Youth” by Isaac Asimov

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

Figurative Language in Context #2

Introduce readers to the poem &quot;The Song of Wandering Aengus&quot; by William Butler Yeats with this poetry analysis worksheet!<br />
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Analyzing Poetry: "The Song of Wandering Aengus" by William Butler Yeats

Students will be rolling with laughter as they read and write their own puns!

Let's Have Even More Pun!

It&#39;s time to let loose and get silly with this fun figurative language exercise! This worksheet will let your students stretch their creativity as they practice using homonyms to write their own puns.

Create a Pun 2

Your students will infer the meaning of unknown figurative language examples by using context clues.

Making Sense of Figurative Language 1

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

Compare and Contrast in Poetry: “January” and “The Wind”

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

Hyperbole in Poetry

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

Figurative Language in Context #3

Students will read metaphors and identify how the two things being compared are alike.

Reading & Understanding Metaphors

In this two-page worksheet, learners will use context clues to decipher the meaning of idioms used on literal and non-literal contexts.

Idioms: Explaining Literal and Nonliteral Language

Search this puzzle for animal onomatopoeias. An onomatopoeia is a word that imitates the sound that it&#39;s describing. These words are sounds made by animals!

Animal Onomatopoeias

Introduce readers to the poem &ldquo;O Captain! My Captain!&rdquo; by American poet Walt Whitman with this seventh-grade reading comprehension worksheet!&nbsp;

Analyzing Poetry: “O Captain! My Captain!” by Walt Whitman

Kids practice using idioms in this figurative language worksheet.

Identify the Idiom

Let's get as silly as a goose with these similes! Students will get creative as they finish simple similes with this introductory worksheet. After they finish, give them a chance to share their favorites with the class!

Silly Similes

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

Determine the Meaning of Common Allusions #2

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

Idioms in Context

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

Figurative Language Maze: Winter Hyperbole

Use this worksheet to teach your students to write compound sentences with the support of sentence frames as they differentiate between literal and nonliteral meanings of idioms. Don’t forget the context clues!

Literal and Nonliteral Language

Children practice identifying and interpreting one type of figurative language, similes, in nine sample sentences.

Making Sense of Figurative Language 2

Use this worksheet to provide students with even more practice using both homophones and homonyms as they identify and write their own puns!

More Puzzling Puns

After finishing Rick Riordan&rsquo;s <em>The Lightning Thief</em>, students reflect on the author&#39;s use of dialogue and literary techniques to drive the story.

Novel Study: The Lightning Thief: Analyzing Characters’ Dialogue

Children read a passage from L. Frank Baum's classic The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, then answer a series of questions in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Analyzing a Passage from The Wizard of Oz

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

Examples of Hyperbole! Part 2

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

Figurative Language Maze: Earth Day Similes

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

Vocabulary Builder: Descriptive Words

EL students will read similes and identify how the two things being compared are alike.

Reading & Understanding Similes

Introduce your students to some common English idioms and their meanings.

Idioms: Picture This!

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