1. Trashketball Figurative Language

2. Rules of Trashketball 1.Stay in your seats at ALL times. 2.You will have 30-60 seconds to ponder/discuss the answer to a question AND 3.Write ONE response to the question on a sheet of paper. 4.All players/teams will hold up their answers. 5.If you are correct, you/your team will get the opportunity to shoot the correct response into the trashcan from a point line (or your seat). 6.If the shot is made, the player/team gets a point. 7.Shots will be made after ALL the questions have been answered or shown.

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

4. Answer Personification – Loneliness cannot run or move, it is an abstract noun given humanlike qualities.

5. Q 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. Answers Hyperbole – garbage reached the sky. OR Personification – garbage cannot touch or roll. OR Alliteration – The consonant sound of “s”/“c” is repeated. (depending upon your justification)

7. Q 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 – There is a comparison: strings are compared to silk.

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

10. Answer Metaphor – There is a comparison using the verb IS  Life is a broken wing.

11. Q 5 You could’ve knocked me over with a feather!

12. Answer Hyperbole – It is an exaggeration of how shocked this person was.

13. Q 6 This school was a prison for all adolescents!

14. Answer Metaphor – A comparison of school to prison using the verb was.

15. Q 7 Hey diddle, diddle, The cat & the fiddle. The cow jumped over the moon, The dog laughed to see such a sport. And the dish ran away with the spoon.

16. Answer Personification – Cows cannot jump over a moon, dogs cannot laugh, and dishware cannot run off as these are objects given humanlike qualities.

17. Q 8 “It’s been a hard day’s night, And I’ve been workin’ like a dog.” -The Beatles

18. Answer Simile – A comparison of “I” to hard work ethic using the work like.

19. Q 9 American is a melting pot of cultures.

20. Answer Metaphor – A comparison of American to a melting pot using the verb is.

21. Q 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 – Words are being given humanlike qualities such as wearing boots.

23. Q 11 Her head was spinning from all of the new information the teacher provided.

24. Answer Idiom – The head cannot actually spin, that is super unnatural.

25. Q 12 Wide-eyed and wondering were the willing children. Yes, the children.

26. Answer Alliteration – There is a repetition of consonant sounds  “w”

27. Q 13 The burning wood hissed and crackled.

28. Answer Onomatopoeia – the wood makes the imitation sound words of “hiss” and “crack”

29. Q 14 Bells – let them sound around the town!

30. Answer Assonance – The vowel sound “ow” is repeated in the words sound, around, and town.

31. Q 15 Seriously, you could have knocked me over with a feather after I heard the news!

32. Answer Idiom – Knock me over with a feather is an expression that cannot be understood if broken apart. OR Hyperbole – A human, no matter their weight, would not be able to be knocked over by such a light item like a feather.

33. Q 16 At the store, the butter was bitter and Betty didn’t want bitter butter.

34. Answer Alliteration – The “B” consonant is repeated.

35. Q 17 The match continued quickly as the audience could hear the tennis ball whir past.

36. Answer Onomatopoeia – The sound word whir is being used to imitate the sound a speeding tennis ball makes.

37. Q 18 Beneath the trees I did feel the breeze.

38. Answer Assonance – The long e or “eeee” vowel sound is being repeated in the words beneath, tree, and breeze.

39. Q 19 Her eyes were a diamond in the rough.

40. Answer Metaphor – Not only is there a linking verb were, but also “her” eyes are being compared to a diamond.

41. HOW DID YOU DO? Do we need to go over these types of figurative language more? Would you like to practice with an interactive online game? http://www.starrmatica.com/standalone/starrMaticaFigurativeLanguageBaseball.swf http://www.starrmatica.com/standalone/starrMaticaFigurativeLanguageBaseball.swf Then, how many points did you accumulate during the game of Trashketball?