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Figurative Language Activity | At the Ninja Training Camp...
Interactive ActivityGrades 6-8

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

Skill: Figurative Language

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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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."
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Kai scrambled up the wooden training wall like a gecko missing half its toes.
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Sensei Vex was silent, but his stare was a stop sign that Nori obeyed.
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Thin silvery clouds tiptoed past the watchful moon.
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Nori crept through the dark training room as quietly as a secret.
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Kai stumbled into an ancient gong and made a sound loud enough to rearrange furniture.
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Sensei Vex struck the punching bag with enough force to shatter a mountain.
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Nori dangled from a tangled spiderweb of ropes.
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The towering wooden climbing wall mocked Kai.
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Kai's confidence was a leaky balloon, and he could feel it floating away.
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Sensei Vex, with a quick move, caught a fly with his chopsticks and said that doing this takes just a bit of practice.
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Nori landed a flawless triple backflip and called it a basic morning stretch.
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Sensei Vex's glare was cold enough to freeze a volcano.
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The advanced obstacle course was a sprawling scribble of ropes and walls.
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Kai crossed the balance beam like he was carrying a full bowl of steaming hot soup.
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The thick climbing ropes wrestled with the exhausted Kai.
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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."
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Nori crept through the darkness of the stealth room in silence, but her squeaky sandals tattled on her.
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Kai must have fallen off the balance beam a billion times before lunch.
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Kai fell hard into the mud again and said he was just testing the softness of the ground.
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Nori snuck subtly around the stealth room like a rumor.
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Kai stepped on a floorboard and made enough noise to wake up the entire continent.
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Sensei Vex delivered a single clap, and his hands were a pair of curtains that closed the show.
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Kai's feather bed was beckoning him to come and rest.
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The blaring sound of the lunch gong hit Kai's ears like a bucket of freezing water.
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