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

  8. Answer Simile

  9. 4 Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

  10. Answer Metaphor

  11. 5 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.

  12. Answer Hyperbole

  13. 6 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.

  14. Answer Metaphor

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  16. Answer Personification

  17. 8 Better you should have a nose impertinent1 as a flower, sensitive As a root; 1. Something impertinentis improperly bold or rude.

  18. Answer Simile

  19. 9 Columbus thought he was going to India, so one could say that he was a little off course when he landed in North America.

  20. Answer Understatement

  21. 10 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.

  22. Answer Personification

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