Trashketball

Figurative 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

Without the slightest tinge of gold,

The city shivered in the cold.

Answer

Personification

2

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

Answer

Hyperbole

3

And half-submerged tomato-cans

Shine scaly, as leviathans

Answer

Simile

4

I pray to be the tool which to your hand

Long use has shaped and molded till it be

Apt for your need, and, unconsideringly,

You take it for its service.

Answer

Metaphor

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

6

Be patient with you?

When pain's iron bars

Their rivets tighten, stern

To bend and break their victims;

As they turn,

Feel Patience then?

Answer

Metaphor

7

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

Answer

Personification

8

They have watered the street,

It shines in the glare of lamps,

Cold, white lamps,

And lies

Like a slow-moving river,

Barred with silver and black.

Answer

Simile

9

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

Answer

Understatement

10

The old wall will watch him,

Very quietly and patiently it will watch.

For the wall is old,

It is a Roman wall.

Answer

Personification