Metaphors Worksheets

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

Worksheet

Similes and Metaphors: Can You Tell the Difference?

Worksheet

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

Worksheet

Simile or Metaphor

Worksheet

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

Worksheet

Metaphors and Similes

Worksheet

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

Worksheet

All About Metaphors

Worksheet

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

Metaphor and Simile Search

Worksheet

Metaphor and Simile Search

Get students thinking figuratively by having them connect their understanding of metaphors and similes to the books they read in class. Students will seek out a metaphor or simile in their reading, consider the quote's context, then explain what they thin

2nd grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Reading & Understanding Metaphors

Worksheet

Reading & Understanding Metaphors

Students will read metaphors and identify how the two things being compared are alike.

5th grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Metaphors in Context

Worksheet

Metaphors in Context

Use this activity to help students find and decipher metaphors in the context of short passages. Students will read the passages, record what is being compared in each, and then seek to explain the metaphors' meanings in their own words.

2nd grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

What is a Metaphor?

Worksheet

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.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Making Sense of Figurative Language 1

Worksheet

Making Sense of Figurative Language 1

Your students will infer the meaning of unknown figurative language examples by using context clues.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Making Metaphors

Worksheet

Making Metaphors

Metaphors are imaginative ways to describe something by comparing that thing to something else. With this worksheet, students will write a metaphor for each pair of given words.

2nd grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Examples of Similes

Worksheet

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.

5th grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Animal Metaphors

Worksheet

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.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Write Your Own Metaphors

Worksheet

Write Your Own Metaphors

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.

2nd grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Glossary: Making Sense of Metaphors

Worksheet

Glossary: Making Sense of Metaphors

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Sense of Metaphors.

5th grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Making Sense of Figurative Language 3

Worksheet

Making Sense of Figurative Language 3

This exercise will get your students inferring the meaning of unknown metaphors.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Metaphors

Worksheet

Metaphors

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.

5th grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Awesome Analogies

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Awesome Analogies

Introduce your students to analogies with this fun, fill-in-the-blank worksheet!

5th grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Writing Metaphors with Linking Verbs

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Writing Metaphors with Linking Verbs

In this exercise, students will use linking verbs to write metaphors with support.

5th grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Vocabulary Cards: Making Sense of Metaphors

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Vocabulary Cards: Making Sense of Metaphors

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Sense of Metaphors.

5th grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Fall Figurative Language Task Cards

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Fall Figurative Language Task Cards

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.

4th grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

A Nation’s Strength

Worksheet

A Nation’s Strength

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.

5th grade

Reading & writing

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