5th Grade Figurative Language Worksheets

If your students need support in matching obscure words with the deeper meaning, invite them to use the clues on this worksheet to match words and phrases with their corresponding meanings.

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

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

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.

BOOM! This worksheet is full of all kinds of sound-based words, from creaks to squeaks.

Practice analyzing poetry with one of Emily Dickinson’s most popular poems!

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

This resource makes matching idioms as easy as pie! ​Students will pair idioms based on their identical meaning.

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.

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

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

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

Use this worksheet to review figurative language! Students will write what they think each idiom on this worksheet means.

Have fun with hyperbole in this funny fill-in story-writing worksheet!

Are you as quick as lightning? Learn about similes with this fun activity. Pick a simile and draw a picture to represent it.

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.

How is a grapefruit like a moon? They are both round! Students will identify which items are being compared in a metaphor, then describe one way they are alike.

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

Challenge your students to find the definitions of each homograph that give these puns their double meaning.

This is a hilarious worksheet for students to dive into as they hone their figurative language skills! Young wordsmiths will practice identifying the differences between homonyms and homophones as they analyze puns.

In this exercise, students will use linking verbs to write metaphors with support.

Your students will have fun identifying the homophones in these hilarious puns!

Search this puzzle for onomatopoeias of animal sounds in other languages! How do they compare to the onomatopoeias you know?