Metaphors Worksheets & Activities – Figurative Language Practice

This engaging set of Metaphor Worksheets and Activities is designed to help students understand, identify, interpret, and create metaphors with confidence. The collection includes twelve no-prep worksheets that gradually build skills from recognition to application, making it perfect for literacy centers, ELA lessons, small groups, intervention, and independent practice. Students interact with metaphors in a variety of meaningful ways—spotting them in sentences, matching them to meanings, explaining their significance, distinguishing them from similes, and completing unfinished expressions.

Creative tasks encourage deeper thinking, including making their own metaphors, illustrating literal and figurative meanings, and revising mixed metaphors for clarity. As students progress, they apply figurative language in reading, writing, and poetry, culminating in composing their own metaphor-rich verse. Each page fosters vocabulary development, descriptive writing, and higher-level thinking skills while boosting comprehension of figurative language used in everyday speech and literature.