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Figurative Language Activity | At the Ninja Training Camp...

Figurative Language Activity | At the Ninja Training Camp...

Join Kai and Nori at the Shadow Pine Ninja Academy and identify figurative language in fun, themed sentences. Skills covered: simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, and understatement. This activity features 25 adaptive questions leveled for students grades 3-12.

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Level B - Proficient

Read each quote and answer the questions below.
Nori studied the metal spikes and dangerous traps along the obstacle course and said, "What a gentle warm-up."
Which technique is being used?
How do you figure?
Kai scrambled up the wooden training wall like a gecko missing half its toes.
Which technique is being used?
How do you figure?
Sensei Vex was silent, but his stare was a stop sign that Nori obeyed.
Which technique is being used?
How do you figure?
Thin silvery clouds tiptoed past the watchful moon.
Which technique is being used?
How do you figure?
Nori crept through the dark training room as quietly as a secret.
Which technique is being used?
How do you figure?
Kai stumbled into an ancient gong and made a sound loud enough to rearrange furniture.
Which technique is being used?
How do you figure?
Sensei Vex struck the punching bag with enough force to shatter a mountain.
Which technique is being used?
How do you figure?
Nori dangled from a tangled spiderweb of ropes.
Which technique is being used?
How do you figure?
The towering wooden climbing wall mocked Kai.
Which technique is being used?
How do you figure?
Kai's confidence was a leaky balloon, and he could feel it floating away.
Which technique is being used?
How do you figure?
Sensei Vex, with a quick move, caught a fly with his chopsticks and said that doing this takes just a bit of practice.
Which technique is being used?
How do you figure?
Nori landed a flawless triple backflip and called it a basic morning stretch.
Which technique is being used?
How do you figure?
Sensei Vex's glare was cold enough to freeze a volcano.
Which technique is being used?
How do you figure?
The advanced obstacle course was a sprawling scribble of ropes and walls.
Which technique is being used?
How do you figure?
Kai crossed the balance beam like he was carrying a full bowl of steaming hot soup.
Which technique is being used?
How do you figure?
The thick climbing ropes wrestled with the exhausted Kai.
Which technique is being used?
How do you figure?
Sensei Vex laughed at the fatigued Kai and said, "Why are you gasping when we have done nothing? We haven't even started training yet."
Which technique is being used?
How do you figure?
Nori crept through the darkness of the stealth room in silence, but her squeaky sandals tattled on her.
Which technique is being used?
How do you figure?
Kai must have fallen off the balance beam a billion times before lunch.
Which technique is being used?
How do you figure?
Kai fell hard into the mud again and said he was just testing the softness of the ground.
Which technique is being used?
How do you figure?
Nori snuck subtly around the stealth room like a rumor.
Which technique is being used?
How do you figure?
Kai stepped on a floorboard and made enough noise to wake up the entire continent.
Which technique is being used?
How do you figure?
Sensei Vex delivered a single clap, and his hands were a pair of curtains that closed the show.
Which technique is being used?
How do you figure?
Kai's feather bed was beckoning him to come and rest.
Which technique is being used?
How do you figure?
The blaring sound of the lunch gong hit Kai's ears like a bucket of freezing water.
Which technique is being used?
How do you figure?