A purposeful teaching resource from Gifted and Talented Teacher, designed to support curriculum-aligned instruction and student engagement. These printable teacher resources are created for real classrooms, helping educators teach with confidence while lightening the daily load. Figurative Language: Posters + Cards, and Matching Game Figurative language is often used to bring clarity to a situation, enable one to write creatively or paint a particular image in someone's mind. What's included in this teacher resource: Figurative Language: Posters and Cards Figurative Language: Matching Game This teaching resource includes 11 figurative language cards. Each card has coinciding definitions and examples designed to be matched to each figurative language card. The learner also has the opportunity to write an example to go with the definition and examples on the figurative language card. Play individually, in pairs (swap student examples) or embed into literacy rotations. The figurative language included: alliteration, simile, metaphor, oxymoron, hyperbole, idiom, allusion, personification, pun, euphemism and onomatopoeia. Format: PDF Gifted and Talented Teacher creates teacher resources designed to lighten the load and classroom decor that lifts the room.