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Figurative Language 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!

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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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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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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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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
Worksheet
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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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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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
Worksheet
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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Metaphors and Similes
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Metaphors and Similes
Tennyson the Turtle provides a jolly introduction to metaphors and similes! Help your child to identify the figures of speech in this story.
4th grade
Reading & writing
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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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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
Worksheet
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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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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Mixed Review Language Arts Assessment
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Mixed Review Language Arts Assessment
In this mid-year assessment, students will apply their language arts knowledge to a broad set of problems.
4th grade
Reading & writing
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All About Metaphors
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All About Metaphors
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 her own.
5th grade
Reading & writing
Worksheet
Review: Metaphors and Similes
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Review: Metaphors and Similes
Review metaphors and similes by underlining each time Paulo uses them in his postcard to Katherine. Then, students will practice writing their own!
4th grade
Reading & writing
Worksheet
Literal and Nonliteral Language
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Literal and Nonliteral Language
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!
3rd grade
Reading & writing
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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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Assonance and Consonance
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Assonance and Consonance
Play around with word sounds in this figurative language worksheet! Learn to identify assonance and consonance, two common poetic devices.
5th grade
Reading & writing
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What Is an Idiom?
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What Is an Idiom?
Learn what an idiom is, and do some fun coloring with this informative worksheet.
4th grade
Reading & writing
Worksheet
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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Pun with Homophones
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Pun with Homophones
Help your budding wordsmiths develop their figurative language skills with this fun pun activity! This is a great worksheet for students to practice identifying and using homophones as they work to create their very own puns!
4th grade
Reading & writing
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Similes: Clear as Crystal
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Similes: Clear as Crystal
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.
3rd grade
Reading & writing
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Alphabet Alliteration
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Alphabet Alliteration
Have some fun with the alphabet as you learn all about alliteration! Create an alliteration for every letter of the alphabet.
1st grade
Reading & writing
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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
Worksheet

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