Free Figurative Language Worksheets
Understanding a text involves correctly interpreting the figurative language devices and other language tricks a writer uses. Improve students’ comprehension with these figurative language worksheets which focus not only on defining figurative language devices, but also teach students to distinguish between literal and figurative language and correctly interpret the figurative language devices writers use.
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Elementary Figurative Language Worksheets
In elementary school, students are just beginning to distinguish between literal and figurative language. As they're introduced to poetry, figures of speech, and more advanced writing, it is important to take time to teach them about figurative language techniques.
Grades 3-5
- Similes - grade 3
- Personification - grades 3-4
- Personification - grade 5
- Alliteration - grade 4
- Figurative Language
- Figurative Language
Middle School Figurative Language Worksheets
In middle school, figurative language is more common, not just in poetry and works of literature, but also in nonfiction and informational texts, including speeches, advertisements, and historical documents.
Grades 6-8
- Figurative Language in Literature - grade 6
- Figurative Language in Poetry - grade 6
- Allusions - grade 8
- Humor - grade 8
- Understanding Idioms with Context Clues
- Is it Dramatic Irony?
- Is it Situational Irony?
- Is it Verbal Irony?
- Figurative Language - grade 6
- Figurative Language - grade 8
- Figurative Language: Similes
- Metaphors and Similes
- Idioms, Similes, Metaphors
- Alliteration and Onomatopoeia
- Hyperbole and Idioms
- Figurative Language in Poetry
- Fun with Puns
- Types of Jokes
- Recognizing Sound Devices in Poetry
- Understatement or Hyperbole?
- Idioms About Books
High School Figurative Language Worksheets
High school students are likely to encounter more sophisticated uses of figurative language in a range of fiction and nonfiction texts They may also be introduced to new figurative language devices, such as apostrophe and paradox.
Grades 9-12
- Imagery
- Understanding Irony
- Interpreting Poetry
- Allusions
- Interpreting Symbols
- Examples of Apostrophe
- Recognizing Types of Word Play
- Identifying Types of Humor
- Is it an Epigram?
- Analyzing a Sestina
- Analyzing a Rondeau
- Analyzing a Dirge
- Identify the Quatrain Rhyme Scheme
- Looking at a Didactic Poem
- Identify the Type of Couplet
- Traits of a Villanelle