Figurative Language Trashketball

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  • TrashketballFigurative Language

  • Rules of TrashketballStay in your seats at all times.You will have 30-60 seconds to discuss the answer to a question ANDWrite 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.

  • 1Without the slightest tinge of gold,The city shivered in the cold.

  • AnswerPersonification

  • 2Our right of thought-- our last and only place of refuge.

  • AnswerHyperbole

  • 3And half-submerged tomato-cansShine scaly, as leviathans

  • AnswerSimile

  • 4I pray to be the tool which to your handLong use has shaped and molded till it beApt for your need, and, unconsideringly,You take it for its service.

  • AnswerMetaphor

  • 5It was many and many a year ago,In a kingdom by the sea,That a maiden there lived whom you may knowBy the name of Annabel Lee;-And this maiden she lived with no other thoughtThan to love and be loved by me.

  • AnswerHyperbole

  • 6Be patient with you? When pain's iron barsTheir rivets tighten, sternTo bend and break their victims; As they turn,Feel Patience then?

  • AnswerMetaphor

  • 7It is cold on the terrace; A pale wind licks along the stone slabs, But the dog gazes through the glass And is content.

  • AnswerPersonification

  • 8

    They have watered the street,It shines in the glare of lamps,Cold, white lamps,And liesLike a slow-moving river,Barred with silver and black.

  • AnswerSimile

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

  • AnswerUnderstatement

  • 10The old wall will watch him,Very quietly and patiently it will watch.For the wall is old,It is a Roman wall.

  • AnswerPersonification