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Scrambled Similes
Scrambled Similes
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Scrambled Similes
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!
5th grade
Reading & Writing
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Similes: Easy as Pie
Similes: Easy as Pie
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Similes: Easy as Pie
If someone loses their glasses, are they as blind as a bee or a bat? This fill-in-the-blank worksheet introduces your child to popular similes.
3rd grade
Reading & Writing
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Hyperbole Story
Hyperbole Story
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Hyperbole Story
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.
5th grade
Reading & Writing
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Metaphors and Similes
Metaphors and Similes
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Metaphors and Similes
Children are introduced to Tennyson the Turtle, a reptile who likes to use metaphors and similes, in this appealing worksheet!
4th grade
Reading & Writing
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Figurative Language: Figure It Out!
Figurative Language: Figure It Out!
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Figurative Language: Figure It Out!
Assess your students’ knowledge of the eight most common types of figurative language.
5th grade
Reading & Writing
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Simile or Metaphor
Simile or Metaphor
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Simile or Metaphor
Can you tell the difference between a simile and a metaphor? Students will seek to distinguish between—and determine the meanings of—simple similes and metaphors with this multiple choice activity.
2nd grade
Reading & Writing
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Similes and Metaphors: Can You Tell the Difference?
Similes and Metaphors: Can You Tell the Difference?
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Similes and Metaphors: Can You Tell the Difference?
Can you tell the difference between a simile and a metaphor? Help your star writer sort out her figurative language with a fun activity.
5th grade
Reading & Writing
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Figurative Language Practice
Figurative Language Practice
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Figurative Language Practice
Help demystify figurative language for your third grader with this worksheet that challenges him to explain what the figurative descriptions in bold mean.
3rd grade
Reading & Writing
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Write Your Own Metaphors
Write Your Own Metaphors
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Write Your Own Metaphors
Give kids a chance to think creatively about metaphors by letting them write their own! Students will stretch their imaginations and figurative language skills as they think of ways to describe their class, bedroom, and more.
2nd grade
Reading & Writing
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Hyperbole in Poetry
Hyperbole in Poetry
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Hyperbole in Poetry
Read this silly, rhyming poem and find examples of hyperbole!
5th grade
Reading & Writing
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Figurative Language: Alliteration in Poetry
Figurative Language: Alliteration in Poetry
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Figurative Language: Alliteration in Poetry
Alliteration is a type of figurative language that is often used in poetry. Use this classic poem with your students to practice identifying alliteration in context.
3rd grade
Reading & Writing
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Vocabulary Builder: Descriptive Words
Vocabulary Builder: Descriptive Words
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Vocabulary Builder: Descriptive Words
Introduce your students to vocabulary words that will strengthen their descriptive writing!
4th grade
Reading & Writing
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Examples of Hyperbole
Examples of Hyperbole
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Examples of Hyperbole
Suffering from boring story syndrome? Never fear, Captain Hyperbole is here! Turn a bland statement into something incredible with the power of exaggeration.
5th grade
Reading & Writing
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Idioms: A Figure of Speech
Idioms: A Figure of Speech
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Idioms: A Figure of Speech
What does "when pigs fly" mean if pigs can't really fly? Kids use context clues to learn the meanings of common idioms on this third grade reading worksheet.
3rd grade
Reading & Writing
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Having Fun with Hyperbole
Having Fun with Hyperbole
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Having Fun with Hyperbole
Your kids will have fun learning about hyperbole and writing some of their own exaggerations along the way!
4th grade
Reading & Writing
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Metaphors
Metaphors
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Metaphors
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.
5th grade
Reading & Writing
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Fall Figurative Language Task Cards
Fall Figurative Language Task Cards
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Fall Figurative Language Task Cards
Ideal for fourth and fifth graders, this worksheet includes figurative language examples and definitions on the first page, and a second full page of questions and tasks that can be used to check for understanding.
4th grade
Reading & Writing
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Explaining Literal and Nonliteral Language
Explaining Literal and Nonliteral Language
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Explaining Literal and Nonliteral Language
Use this worksheet to teach your students how to explain the meaning of literal and nonliteral language. Don’t forget the context clues!
3rd grade
Reading & Writing
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What is Personification?
What is Personification?
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What is Personification?
Help your writing sing with personification! Practice identifying the different examples of personification in these poems by Emily Dickinson.
5th grade
Reading & Writing
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Idioms: Tell Us What You Think!
Idioms: Tell Us What You Think!
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Idioms: Tell Us What You Think!
Use this worksheet to review figurative language! Students will write what they think each idiom on this worksheet means.
3rd grade
Reading & Writing
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Puns with Homophones #1
Puns with Homophones #1
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Puns with Homophones #1
Your students will have fun identifying the homophones in these hilarious puns!
5th grade
Reading & Writing
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Figurative Language: Idioms
Figurative Language: Idioms
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Figurative Language: Idioms
Use this resource with your students to practice using context clues to determine the meaning of idioms.
3rd grade
Reading & Writing
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A Nation’s Strength
A Nation’s Strength
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A Nation’s Strength
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.
5th grade
Reading & Writing
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Figurative Language: Alliteration Sentences
Figurative Language: Alliteration Sentences
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Figurative Language: Alliteration Sentences
Successful students set sail with alliteration! Use this resource with your students to practice writing sentences using alliteration.
3rd grade
Reading & Writing
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Figurative Language: Identifying Alliteration
Figurative Language: Identifying Alliteration
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Figurative Language: Identifying Alliteration
Alliteration is a fun way to play with language! Use this resource with your students to practice identifying examples of alliteration
3rd grade
Reading & Writing
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Figurative Language Printable Worksheets

Figurative language is an essential part of English fluency, and these figurative language worksheets make it easy for students to learn all the basic building blocks. Teacher-created for students from first to fifth grade, our figurative language worksheets help to strengthen your students' descriptive vocabulary and introduce concepts like similes and metaphors, hyperbole, idioms, and much more!