Trashketball Figurative Language
Rules of Trashketball 1.Stay in your seats at all times. 2.You will have seconds to discuss the answer to a question AND 3.Write ONE response to the question on a sheet of paper. 4.All teams will hold up their answers. 5.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. 6.If the shot is made, the team gets extra- credit. 7.Shots will be made after ALL the questions have been answered.
1 A boy told me that if he roller-skated fast enough his loneliness couldn’t catch up to him.
Answer Personification
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.
Answer Hyperbole
3 “Under our tulip tree You wait in the yellow dust Smoothing a lilac dress.”
Answer Imagery
4 Fast breaks. Lay ups. Nothing but a hot Swish of strings like silk Ten feet out. When girls Cheered on the sidelines.
Answer Simile
5 “Life is a bowl of cherries.”
Answer Metaphor
6 Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
Answer Metaphor
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.
Answer Hyperbole
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.”
Answer Imagery
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.
Answer Metaphor
10 old age sticks up Keep Off signs)& youth yanks them down(old age cries) youth laughs old age scolds Forbid den Stop Must n’t Don’t &youth goes right on gr owing old
Answer Personification
11 “living death” “successful failure” “sweet sorrow”
Answer Oxymoron
12 Better you should have a nose impertinent 1 as a flower, sensitive As a root; 1. Something impertinent is improperly bold or rude.
Answer Simile
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.
Answer Understatement
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.
Answer Personification
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!”
Answer Imagery
16 My soul has grown deep like rivers.
Answer Personification
17 Oh, never, if I live to a million, Shall I feel such a terrible pain.
Answer Hyperbole
18 “The fair breeze ble, the white foam flew, The furrow followed free; We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea.”
Answer Alliteration
19 “And my fingertips turned into stone From clutching immovable blackness.”
Answer Hyperbole
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..”
Answer Imagery
21 Let your hair down Keep the ball rolling A hole-in-the-wall
Answer Idiom
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.
Answer Alliteration
23 Swift autumn, like a bonfire of leaves, And sleepy winter, like the sleep of death.
Answer Simile