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

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!

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.

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

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.

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

Assess your students’ knowledge of the eight most common types of figurative language.

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.

Children draw the literal meaning of a few idiomatic expressions as they consider their true social meaning.

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.

Read this silly, rhyming poem and find examples of hyperbole!

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

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.

Review metaphors and similes by underlining each time Paulo uses them in his postcard to Katherine. Then, students will practice writing their own!

Introduce your students to vocabulary words that will strengthen their descriptive writing!

Suffering from boring story syndrome? Never fear, Captain Hyperbole is here! Turn a bland statement into something incredible with the power of exaggeration.

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.

Your kids will have fun learning about hyperbole and writing some of their own exaggerations along the way!

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.

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.

Use this worksheet to teach your students how to explain the meaning of literal and nonliteral language. Don’t forget the context clues!

Use this worksheet to review figurative language! Students will write what they think each idiom on this worksheet means.

Your students will have fun identifying the homophones in these hilarious puns!

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.

Successful students set sail with alliteration! Use this resource with your students to practice writing sentences using alliteration.