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5th and 6th 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.

Match the Meaning

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

Figurative Language Maze: Summer Similes

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

Figurative Language Handout

Practice analyzing figurative language in context with this excerpt from C.S. Lewis&rsquo;s classic fantasy novel, <em>The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe</em>!

Targeted Reading Skills Practice: Figurative Language in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

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

Figurative Language Maze: Fall Similes

Give your learners some fun figurative language practice with Halloween-themed similes!

Figurative Language Maze: Halloween Similes

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

Mixed Practice: Similes and Metaphors #1

Give your learners some fun figurative language practice with Halloween-themed metaphors!

Figurative Language Maze: Halloween Metaphors

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

What is Onomatopoeia?

Have your learners practice identifying hyperboles with this fun figurative language maze.

Figurative Language Maze: Halloween Hyperbole

Have fun with figurative language with these Halloween exaggerations that are sure to spook your students! They will enjoy the chance to write their own hyperboles with these over-the-top sentences.

Halloween Hyperboles

Brush up on your figurative language skills this fall season with this engaging metaphors maze!

Figurative Language Maze: Fall Metaphors

Assess your students&rsquo; knowledge of the eight most common types of figurative language.

Figurative Language: Figure It Out!

This worksheet will help your child understand what similes are, and she&#39;ll even get to use her imagination to write some of her own!

Scrambled Similes

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

What Is Figurative Language?

Practice analyzing poetry with&nbsp;one of Emily Dickinson&rsquo;s most popular poems!

Analyzing Poetry:  “‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers" by Emily Dickinson

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

What Is Personification?

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

Examples of Hyperbole! Part 1

Invite your learners to practice identifying hyperboles with this fun figurative language maze!&nbsp;

Figurative Language Maze: Fall Hyperbole

This grammar worksheet gives students a chance to study real examples of figurative language in context, including similes, metaphors, idioms, and personification.

Figurative Language in Context #1

Mixed Practice: Similes and Metaphors #2

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

Review: Metaphors and Similes

Practice identifying metaphors with this fun, summer-themed figurative language maze!

Figurative Language Maze: Summer Metaphors

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

Identical Idioms

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.

Similes: Clear as Crystal

Students hone their ability to spot literary devices with this fun, winter-themed figurative language maze!

Figurative Language Maze: Winter Similes

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.

Fall Figurative Language Task Cards

Middle school writers practice rewriting sentences using personification to add description and make the sentences more exciting!

Personification to Enhance Writing

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

Hyperbole Story

Practice identifying metaphors with this fun, winter-themed figurative language maze!

Figurative Language Maze: Winter Metaphors

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