Loudoun County Public Schools
Figurative Language Packet
A definitive resource for your figurative language unit includes several worksheets and activities to reinforce writing skills. It addresses poetic elements such as simile and metaphor, personification, hyperbole, and idioms, and...
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Figurative Language
Play a figurative language game! Starting with a review of terms, this presentation quickly launches into a quiz game with hyper-linked answers. Simply click an answer to find out if it's wrong or right. The option to try again is always...
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Parts of Speech Matching
In this parts of speech worksheet, students read sentences and match them to the part of speech that they represent including similes, personification, metaphors, and more. Students complete 8 matches.
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Simile, Metaphor, Hyperbole
In this online interactive figurative language worksheet, students respond to 15 fill in the blank questions identifying each sentence as a simile, metaphor, or hyperbole.
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ELA.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.11-12.5
"Timid, scared, terrified." High school scholars examine words, their denotations and connotations, in a series of exercises that use lines from Shakespeare to explore figurative language and word relationships. Participants then...
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Poetry Scrap Book
After your poets have compiled several written poems into a scrap-book, use this grading scale to explain how they'll be graded. The only guiding explanation of the assignment explains that they need to use two of the five literary...
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Analyzing Poetry
Use this poetry analysis worksheet to help your learners understand a poem of their or your choosing. This resource asks class members to summarize the poem and analyze it by looking at voice, word choice, imagery, and theme. The...
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Emlyndo Word Search Puzzle
In this literacy worksheet, students look for the words in the puzzle that are related to the theme of the word search. The vocabulary and spelling are emphasized.