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Trashketball

Trashketball. Figurative Language. Rules of Trashketball. Stay in your seats at all times. You will have 30-60 seconds to discuss the answer to a question AND Write ONE response to the question on a sheet of paper. All teams will hold up their answers.

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Trashketball

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  1. Trashketball Figurative Language

  2. Rules of Trashketball • Stay in your seats at all times. • You will have 30-60 seconds to discuss the answer to a question AND • Write ONE response to the question on a sheet of paper. • All teams will hold up their answers. • If you are correct, your team will get the opportunity to shoot the correct response into the trashcan from a 1, 2, or 3 point line. • If the shot is made, the team gets extra-credit. • Shots will be made after ALL the questions have been answered.

  3. 1 A boy told me that if he roller-skated fast enough his loneliness couldn’t catch up to him.

  4. Answer Personification

  5. 2 Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would not take the garbage out! It filled the can, it covered the floor, It cracked the window and blocked the door, The garbage rolled on down the hall, It raised the roof, it broke the wall… At last the garbage reached so high That finally it touched the sky.

  6. Answer Hyperbole

  7. 3 “Under our tulip tree You wait in the yellow dust Smoothing a lilac dress.”

  8. Answer Imagery

  9. 4 Fast breaks. Lay ups. Nothing but a hot Swish of strings like silk Ten feet out. When girls Cheered on the sidelines.

  10. Answer Simile

  11. 5 “Life is a bowl of cherries.”

  12. Answer Metaphor

  13. 6 Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

  14. Answer Metaphor

  15. 7 It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of Annabel Lee;- And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me.

  16. Answer Hyperbole

  17. 8 “All in a hot and copper sky, The blood Sun, at noon, Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the Moon.”

  18. Answer Imagery

  19. A big room with heavy wooden tables, heavy oak chairs. To the left side the card catalogue. All those books–another world–just waiting at my fingertips.

  20. Answer Metaphor

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  22. Answer Personification

  23. 11 “living death” “successful failure” “sweet sorrow”

  24. Answer Oxymoron

  25. 12 Better you should have a nose impertinent1 as a flower, sensitive As a root; 1. Something impertinentis improperly bold or rude.

  26. Answer Simile

  27. 13 Columbus thought he was going to India, so one could say that he was a little off course when he landed in North America.

  28. Answer Understatement

  29. 14 Look out how you use proud words. When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back. They wear long boots, hard boots; they walk off proud; they can’t hear you calling– Look out how you use proud words.

  30. Answer Personification

  31. 15 “The ice was here, the ice was there, The ice was all around: It cracked and growled, and roared and howled Like noises in a swound!”

  32. Answer Imagery

  33. 16 • My soul has grown deep like rivers.

  34. Answer Personification

  35. 17 Oh, never, if I live to a million, Shall I feel such a terrible pain.

  36. Answer Hyperbole

  37. 18 “The fair breeze ble, the white foam flew, The furrow followed free; We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea.”

  38. Answer Alliteration

  39. 19 “And my fingertips turned into stone From clutching immovable blackness.”

  40. Answer Hyperbole

  41. 20 “brilliance of cloudless days, with broad belying sails they glide to the wind tossing green water from their sharp prows while over them the crew crawls ant-like..”

  42. Answer Imagery

  43. 21 Let your hair down Keep the ball rolling A hole-in-the-wall

  44. Answer Idiom

  45. 22 Pity me not the waning of the moon, Nor that ebbing tide goes out to see, Nor that a man’s desire is hushed so soon, And you no longer look with love on me.

  46. Answer Alliteration

  47. 23 Swift autumn, like a bonfire of leaves, And sleepy winter, like the sleep of death.

  48. Answer Simile

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