Figurative Language Teaching Resources

Using figurative language effectively is an important skill to learn in order to make a piece of text more interesting. Figurative language devices include similes, metaphors, personification, alliteration, onomatopoeia, idioms, oxymoron and hyperbole. This collection of teaching resources includes a wide variety of posters, worksheets, lesson plans and comprehension tasks to use when studying figurative language in the elementary school classroom.