Trashketball Figurative Language

Warm-Up Please grab a piece of paper and write your name on it.

Rules of Trashketball Stay in your seats at all times. A new team member will come to the board to have the chance to answer to each question. At your seats, you should be writing down your answers to the questions. Use this as a review, YOU WILL SEE SIMILAR QUESTIONS AGAIN If you are correct, your team will get the opportunity to shoot the ball into the trashcan from a 1, 2, or 3 point line. If the shot is made, the team gets an extra point Shots will be made after the question has been answered and discussed.

1 How are plot and episode related to each other?

Answer A plot is what happens or happened, and an episode is one event in or part of the story in the plot.

2 How can an author create imagery in writing?

Answer The author can use figurative language, sensory details, show not tell language, etc., to allow the reader to see vividly what she or he is writing.

3 What is foreshadowing?

Answer An event in the story that gives a hint about something that will happen later in the story.

4 What is the difference between the sentences below? a) Life is like a river, a long journey with waves along the way. b) Life is a river, a long journey with waves along the way.

Answer Sentence A is a simile while B is a metaphor.

5 Give an example of a homophone and explain why they are homophones.

Answer Words that sounds the same but are spelled differently and have different meaning.

6 Give an example of an Onomatopeia.

Answer A noise word that represents the sound being made in the sentence.

7 What was Jonathan’s motive for going to the tavern when he heard the bell ring?

Answer He wanted to join the army to fight.

8 What type of figurative language is written below: He would pay a million dollars for a water bottle because he was so thirsty.

Answer Hyperbole: an exaggeration

9 Give a synonym and an antonym for the word below: cold

Answer Synonym: figid, freezing Antonym: hot, warm

10 Identify the conflict and resolution in the story Wonder

Answer Conflict: Auggie was bullied by one of his peers as he returned to school. Resolution: Auggie’s peers stood up for him and his attendance at the school.

11 What is a genre?

Answer A type of story.

12 Conversations between characters in a story are called ______________?

Answer Dialogue

13 When something happens that is the opposite of what is expected in a story, it is called ____________.

Answer Irony

14 When an author gives his or her readers clues about something that will happen later in the story, this is called ________?

Answer Foreshadowing

15 The blanket held her as she sat outside during the football game. This is an example of what type of figurative language?

Personification: Giving human characteristics to non-human things Answer Personification: Giving human characteristics to non-human things