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Trashketball 2Figurative Language
Rules of Trashketball1. Stay in your seats at all times.2. You will have 30-60 seconds to discuss the
answer to a question AND3. 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
Ah, happy hills! ah, pleasing shade!Ah, fields belov'd in vain!
Answer
Personification: The hills are described as happy.
2
Amid young flowers and tender grassThy endless infancy shalt pass;
Answer
Hyperbole: Their infancy is described as endless, when it surely must end.
3
I reeled and shivered earthward like a feather.
Answer
Simile: The speaker compared the way he fell to a feather.
4
He is a pearl within an oyster shell.One of the richest of the deep;
Answer
Metaphor: He is compared to a pearl without using the word “like” or “as.”
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.
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.
6
Love is a pie that must cool upon a shelf
before it is taken to market.
Answer
Metaphor: love is compared to a pie without using the word “like” or “as.”
7
The moon slides down the stairTo see who's there.
Answer
Personification: The moon is given the ability to slide and to see.
8
The sun flashing down on a gray-white sailLike a scimitar from its sheath.
Answer
Simile: The sun is compared to a scimitar or sword using the word “like.”
9
He spent his paycheck
on lottery tickets but
winning the jackpot isn’t
the most likely occurrence.
Answer
Understatement: Winning the lottery is almost impossible, not just an unlikely occurrence.
10
What time the sun divorced the day;And all the shadows, glooming gray,Proclaimed the sadness of the hour.
Answer
Personification: The sun is given the ability to divorce. The shadows are given the ability to proclaim.
