Are you looking to give your students practice with identifying figurative language techniques? How would you like to positively impact the environment by not using paper to print out worksheets? And how do you feel about saving time by not grading assignments?

For these reasons and more, you should use ereading worksheets in your classroom. If you have access to computers, you can use these figurative language practice activities to give your students experience with recognizing instances of figurative language. Additionally, if you have your own classroom website, I’ve included the code to embed them on your site without adds. Check them out:

Figurative Language Practice 1 – Twelve practice problems to help your students reinforce their figurative language skills.
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Figurative Language Practice 2 – Twelve more challenging problems where students distinguish between simile, metaphor, hyperbole, and personification.
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Figurative Language Practice 3 – Here is another online figurative language test. This one has 20 problems.
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Figurative Language Practice 4 – Another online figurative language practice test. This one has ten problems.
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Figurative Language Practice 5 – Wow! More online figurative language practice for students. Ten new problems to help students master their figurative language skills.
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Figurative Language Practice 6 – Why stop now when you can keep practicing your figurative language skills? This one has twenty multiple choice problems with long response boxes for answer explanations.
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Figurative Language Practice 7 – What’s that? Your students want more figurative language practice? Well, let’s give them what they want. Here are ten more problems with long responses.
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Figurative Language Practice 8 – Did you know that you can complete these activities on any tablet, smart phone, or computer with a modern browser? It’s true. And here are twenty more figurative language problems to prove it.
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Figurative Language Practice 9 – If you’re going to keep practicing your figurative language skills, you might as well do so twenty problems at a time. Here is another whopping figurative language practice test to help students master this essential reading skill.
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Figurative Language in Lord of the Flies – Here are twenty online figurative language practice problems to help your students review their figurative language skills. These examples are taken from Golding’s classic novel, Lord of the Flies.
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Figurative Language of O. Henry – O. Henry is one of my favorite writers. He’s witty and his stories often feature clever, surprising, and ironic twists. He can also be very poetic, as this collection of figurative language examples taken from his work will show.
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Figurative Language of Edgar Allan Poe – Ten more figurative language practice problems. In this activity the examples are removed from classic texts written by Edgar Allan Poe. I hope that your students are not too scared to complete this assignment.
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Figurative Language of Shakespeare Practice – William Shakespeare is widely regarded as one of the best writers in the English language. Much of this praise is due to his deft use of figurative language. Practice decoding some of his tricky techniques with this figurative language practice activity. This interactive activity has 20 examples of figurative language taken from his tragedies, comedies, history plays, and sonnets.
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Hyperbole and Understatement

Here are some online activities to help students better understand hyperbole and understatement. In each activity, students read 20 examples of hyperbole and understatement. They determine whether each is an example of hyperbole or understatement, and then they explain their answers and what is being understated or hyperbolized.
Hyperbole and Understatement Practice 1
Hyperbole and Understatement Practice 2
Hyperbole and Understatement Practice 3
Hyperbole and Understatement Practice 4

Similes and Metaphors

Similes and metaphors are frequently confused. They both deal with comparisons between two or more things. These activities will help students better distinguish between similes and metaphors. In each activity, students read 20 figurative language examples taken from poems. Students determine whether each is a simile or a metaphor, then they explain which two things are being compared. If you really want to challenge students, ask them to translate each example into literal language. That’s one way to differentiate instruction with this activity and a high-performing group of students. In either event, these activities should give students the practice that they need with distinguishing similes and metaphors.
Simile and Metaphor Practice 1
Simile and Metaphor Practice 2
Simile and Metaphor Practice 3
Simile and Metaphor Practice 4

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