Search Printable 5th Grade Common Core Figurative Language Worksheets

In this engaging reading comprehension worrksheet, learners read an original two-page story and answer a set of comprehension questions.

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!

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

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

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

In this mid-year assessment, students will apply their language arts knowledge to a broad set of problems.

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.

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

Most great stories are exaggerated to make them seem even more exciting or crazy. Help your child understand hyperbole with this fill-in-the-blank activity.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

In this reading and writing worksheet about the poem “A Nation’s Strength” by William Ralph Emerson, students will use their understanding of figurative language to identify and define metaphors and difficult vocabulary.

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

Challenge your students to use what they know about idioms to find the double meaning in these silly puns. They will ‘get a kick’ out of it!

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

Play around with word sounds in this figurative language worksheet! Learn to identify assonance and consonance, two common poetic devices.

Students will learn to identify onomatopoeia using a word bank and context clues.

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.

Your students will love getting creative as they turn ordinary statements into hyperboles.

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