Trashketball

Figurative Language

Rules of Trashketball1. Stay in your seat AT ALL TIMES, unless allowed to

get up.2. You will have 45 seconds to:

– discuss the answer to a question AND– write ONE COMPLETE SENTENCE that

includes your answer and an explanation.3. Each round, there must be a different recorder. I

will check all teams’ answers.4. 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.

5. A correct answer is worth ONE POINT. If the shot is made, the team gets more points.

6. Shots will be made in between each round.

1

A boy told me

that if he roller-skated fast enough

his loneliness couldn’t catch up to him.

Answer

Personification

OR

Hyperbole

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

OR

Alliteration

3

Fast breaks. Lay ups.

Nothing but a hot

Swish of strings like silk

Ten feet out.

When girls

Cheered on the sidelines.

Answer

Simile

OR

Alliteration

4

Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

Answer

Metaphor

OR

Personification

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

OR

Alliteration

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.

Answer

Metaphor

OR

Personification

OR

Alliteration

OR

Idiom

7old 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

8

Better you should

have a nose

impertinent1

as a flower,

sensitive

As a root;

1. Something impertinent is improperly bold or rude.

Answer

Simile

OR

Personification

9

Columbus thought he was going to India, but he ventured off the beaten path, and ended up in North America.

Answer

Idiom

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.

Answer

Personification