1. Trashketball Figurative Language

2. Rules of Trashketball 1.Stay in your seats at all times. 2.You will have 30-60 seconds to discuss the answer to a question AND 3.Write ONE response to the question on your white board. 4.All teams will hold up their answers. 5.If you are correct, your team will get the opportunity to shoot into the trashcan from a 1, 2, or 3 point line. 6.If the shot is made, the team gets that number of points. 7.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 Better you should have a nose impertinent 1 as a flower, sensitive As a root; 1. Something impertinent is improperly bold or rude.

12. Answer Simile

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

15. 7 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.

16. Answer Personification

17. 8 The rusty spigot sputters, utters a splutter, spatters a smattering of drops, gashes wider; slash splatters scatters spurts finally stops sputtering and plash! gushes rushes splashes clear water dashes.

18. Answer Onomatopoeia

19. 9 I’m glad the sky is painted blue, And the earth is painted green, With such a lot of nice fresh air All sandwiched in between.

20. Answer Imagery

21. 10 “He was a real Romeo with the ladies.” “I thought the software would be useful, but it was a Trojan Horse.” “When she lost her job, she acted like a Scrooge, and refused to buy anything that wasn’t necessary.”

22. Answer Allusion