Searching for the perfect figurative language practice for upper elementary/lower middle school?  Use this simple figurative language practice resource.  The definition task cards can be used as a scavenger hunt with your students to find figurative language definitions.  A note sheet is included so students can search out the terms and record what they find.  Task cards with examples are also included and can be used to test students’ knowledge of the figurative language terms.

Google Form quizzes are also included. Two separate quizzes are provided, one quiz reviews the definitions of the figurative language terms and the second quiz asks students to identify the figurative language being used in an example.

Figurative Language Practice includes :

• Definition Cards

• Student note sheet

• Example Cards

• Task cards for examples

• Google Form Quizzes

The resource includes figurative language review for the following terms:

Metaphor

Simile

Imagery

Hyperbole

Personification

Alliteration

Onomatopoeia

Symbol

Oxymoron

Situational Irony

Pun

Idiom

This simple activity can be used throughout the year if students keep the notes as a resource for later.

You have access to:

• PPT version (fonts will not be the same unless you purchase and install fonts listed on the “Thank You” page)

• The PPT version has an editable section and an uneditable section

• PDF version (all fonts will work in PDF version)

• Google Access (activity for students to use digitally)

• Google Form Quizzes

• Easel Activity

Supports Common Core Standards (CCSS)

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.6.5A

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.7.5A

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.8.5A

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