English playwright William Shakespeare frequently used figurative speech in his sonnets and plays, and the Union County College has set up a website about the bard containing activities that help students to become familiar with the various elements and types, and apply them in their own writing. The students are given examples by Shakespeare or other writers and must find out what kind of figurative language is used in the piece. Other activities include: a worksheet with words used by Shakespeare, and the student has to explain their meanings; and an exercise where various types of figurative language, including metaphors, similes and alliterations, have to be defined by the pupil.
This website has collected a series of online games and activities that relate to figurative language and speech. The games are suitable for students from grades 3 to 7, and include funny question-and-answer quizzes where every right answer takes the player one step closer to Fling the Teacher, or word puzzles where word cutouts have to be dragged into the right order to create a metaphor. In an easy quiz, various similes are given and the students have to determine what is described, and what it is compared to.
Abiator is a comprehensive site from New Zealand with many online activities to improve English language skills. Among the games are various multiple-choice quizzes about figurative language types, including metaphor, alliteration and simile. In some of the activities, students have to match a sentence with the appropriate figurative language type; in other games they are required to complete an expression by finding the right idiom or metaphor.
Starrmatica's online baseball game combines the sport with questions concerning various types of figurative language. The player is given a sentence and has to determine the figurative language type within a given time, signified by a flying ball. If he answers right, he is given a point, but for every wrong answer, the guest team is awarded points.