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Trashketball 2

Trashketball 2. 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 2

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  1. Trashketball 2 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 Ah, happy hills! ah, pleasing shade!Ah, fields belov'd in vain!

  4. Answer Personification: The hills are described as happy.

  5. 2 Amid young flowers and tender grassThy endless infancy shalt pass;

  6. Answer Hyperbole: Their infancy is described as endless, when it surely must end.

  7. 3 I reeled and shivered earthward like a feather.

  8. Answer Simile: The speaker compared the way he fell to a feather.

  9. 4 He is a pearl within an oyster shell.One of the richest of the deep;

  10. Answer Metaphor: He is compared to a pearl without using the word “like” or “as.”

  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: The speaker claims that this woman lived with no other thought than to love and be loved by him, but that must be an exaggeration.

  13. 6 Love is a pie that must cool upon a shelf before it is taken to market.

  14. Answer Metaphor: love is compared to a pie without using the word “like” or “as.”

  15. 7 The moon slides down the stairTo see who's there.

  16. Answer Personification: The moon is given the ability to slide and to see.

  17. 8 The sun flashing down on a gray-white sailLike a scimitar from its sheath.

  18. Answer Simile: The sun is compared to a scimitar or sword using the word “like.”

  19. 9 He spent his paycheck on lottery tickets but winning the jackpot isn’t the most likely occurrence.

  20. Answer Understatement: Winning the lottery is almost impossible, not just an unlikely occurrence.

  21. 10 What time the sun divorced the day;And all the shadows, glooming gray,Proclaimed the sadness of the hour.

  22. Answer Personification: The sun is given the ability to divorce. The shadows are given the ability to proclaim.

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