Flavorful Figures of Speech

This literary analysis worksheet is designed for Grades 3-5 and helps students explore figurative language in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Students read short passages from the text and identify whether each example is a simile, metaphor, or descriptive phrase. After identifying the type of figurative language, learners explain the effect it has on the reader, such as creating strong imagery, setting a playful or suspenseful mood, or emphasizing a character’s emotions.

By pairing identification with explanation, this activity moves students beyond naming devices and toward understanding how and why Roald Dahl uses language so effectively.

Learning Goals

• Figurative Language Identification (Elementary ELA) – Distinguish between similes, metaphors, and descriptive phrases
• Imagery & Description Interpretation – Explain how language helps readers visualize scenes
• Literary Analysis Skills – Connect language choices to meaning and tone
• Author’s Craft Understanding – Recognize how word choice shapes a story’s style

Instructional Benefits

• Teacher-Created Resource – Aligned with upper elementary ELA standards
• Clear Skill Progression – Identify → explain → interpret effect
• Engaging Text Examples – Uses familiar, high-interest passages
• Builds Analytical Confidence – Helps students explain ideas in their own words
• Flexible Use – Ideal for reading workshops, mini-lessons, assessments, or enrichment
• Low Prep – Print-and-use worksheet with straightforward prompts

This Flavorful Figures of Speech worksheet helps students appreciate the vivid, playful language that makes Charlie and the Chocolate Factory so memorable. By identifying figurative language and explaining its effect, learners strengthen reading comprehension, analytical thinking, and their understanding of how authors use words to bring stories to life.

This worksheet is part of our Charlie and the Chocolate Factory worksheets collection.