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3rd - 5th Grade Figurative Language Worksheets

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

Figurative Language Handout

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

Figurative Language Maze: Summer Similes

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

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

Mixed Practice: Similes and Metaphors #1

Students will learn to identify and interpret similes, metaphors, and personification in writing.

Figurative Language Practice

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

What is Onomatopoeia?

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

Figurative Language Maze: Fall Similes

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

Figurative Language: Figure It Out!

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.

Similes: Easy as Pie

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

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!

Pun with Homophones

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

Children are introduced to Tennyson the Turtle, a reptile who likes to use metaphors and similes, in this appealing worksheet!

Metaphors and Similes

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

Figurative Language Maze: Winter Similes

Mixed Practice: Similes and Metaphors #2

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

Examples of Hyperbole! Part 1

Use this resource with your students to practice using context clues to determine the meaning of idioms.

Figurative Language: Idioms

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.

Idioms: A Figure of Speech

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

Alliteration is a fun way to play with language! Use this resource with your students to practice identifying examples of alliteration

Figurative Language: Identifying Alliteration

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

Identical Idioms

In this worksheet, learners will practice identifying metaphors as they color in the logs that contain them.

What Is a Metaphor?

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

Review: Metaphors and Similes

Help your students understand figurative language as they practice identifying homonyms!

Fun with Puns

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

Hyperbole Story

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.

Figurative Language: Alliteration in Poetry

In this fun worksheet, students will get to practice using both homophones and homonyms as they identify and write puns!

Puzzling Puns

Help your students use homonyms to write their own puns as they practice using figurative language with this fun activity!

Create a Pun

Children will love coming up with creative drawings that depict common idioms literally in this engaging grammar worksheet.

What Is an Idiom?

This is a hilarious worksheet for students to dive into as they hone their figurative language skills! Young wordsmiths will practice identifying the differences between homonyms and homophones as they analyze puns.

What's so Punny?

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