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Help your students develop and understanding of mature conversations with these figurative language worksheets from Education.com. Perhaps even more complex for young learners is deciphering the meaning of seemingly outdated idioms. Help boost your students’ ability to use idioms with idioms worksheets that offer both contextual background through examples and opportunities to interpret idioms through art.

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Figurative Language

Simile and Metaphor

Can you tell the difference between a simile and a metaphor? Help your star writer sort out her figurative language with a fun activity.

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.

Similes: Easy as Pie

If someone looses their glasses, are they as blind as a bee or a bat? This fill-in-the-blank worksheet introduces your child to popular similes.

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.

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!

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.

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.

What is a Metaphor?

Using figurative language is a great way to boost your child's writing skills and creativity. With the help of this worksheet, she'll be a metaphor master.

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.

What Is an Idiom?

Learn what an idiom is, and do some fun coloring with this informative worksheet.

Idioms in Context

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

Identify the Idiom

Kids practice using idioms in this figurative language worksheet.

What is Personification?

Help your writing sing with personification! Practice identifying the different examples of personification in these poems by Emily Dickinson.

Expressions Explained

Are you so hungry you could eat a horse? Your students will have fun identifying the examples of hyperbole and idioms in this worksheet.

Making Sense of Idioms

Kids complete sentences with idioms in this worksheet.

Idioms: Picture This!

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

Examples of Similes

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

Match the Meaning

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.

All Kinds of Sounds

Having fun with words and sounds! Extend your students’ experience with onomatopoeia by giving them words to sort and asking them to identify how an author could use specific words in their writing.

Animal Metaphors

This worksheet is a beast! That's a metaphor, and your child will be writing his own metaphors in no time, then he can use them in a poem.

Sounds Like an Animal!

If your students need more practice with onomatopoeia, this worksheet will provide them with examples of common animal sounds and related contexts.

Look for the Sounds

Give your students practice with onomatopoeia identification and various contexts of the associated sounds. This worksheet will help your fourth and fifth graders recognize onomatopoeia words and how they enhance the meaning of the text.

With this word play worksheet students will practice identifying words and phrases that have deeper meaning, such as oxymorons and puns.

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