Trashketball Figurative Language

Rules of Trashketball 1.Stay in your seats at all times. 2.You will have seconds to discuss the answer to a question AND 3.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 or 2 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.

“the icing on the cake”

Makes a good situation even better

“You got ants in your pants!”

Not able to sit still

The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky.

personification

It was so cold, I saw polar bears wearing jackets!

hyperbole

It’s raining money!

Metaphor

The thunder grumbled and clouds cried.

personification

1 Oreos are milk’s favorite cookie.

Answer Personification

2 “Guillermo, stop talking! I told you a thousand times.”

Answer Hyperbole

She has a bubbly personality.

metaphor

3 Down by the garbage dump, the sky is a snotty handkerchief.

Answer Metaphor

4 Angel has a heart of stone

Answer Metaphor

The phone awakened with a mighty ring!

personification

Janet has a rollercoaster of emotions.

metaphor

5 My computer has an attitude sometimes and turns itself off.

Answer Personification

6 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

The waffle jumped out of the toaster like a frog. (need 2 answers)

Personification & simile

I’m not sick, I just have a little cancer.

understatement

7 School is heaven on earth!

Answer Metaphor

8 Even a child could carry my dog, Cocoa. She is such a feather.

Answer Metaphor

9 I had a diamond as clear as glass

Answer simile

We are so poor, we don’t have two cents to rub together.

hyperbole

It was a bit cold outside this morning.

understatement

10 Destiny has tons of money.

Answer Hyperbole

11 Miriam saw the puppy and froze with fear

Answer Metaphor

12 The 49ers’ Group talks a little bit.

Answer Understatement

I have a million things to do today!

hyperbole

13 Fast breaks. Lay ups. Nothing but a hot Swish of strings like silk Ten feet out. When girls Cheered on the sidelines.

Answer Simile

14 Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

Answer Metaphor

15 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

16 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

Mrs. Dixon’s class beat us once or twice.

understatement

17 That drink is as sweet as honey

Answer Simile

18 old 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

19 The wind screamed as it raced around the house.

Answer Personification

20 After the head-on collision, the driver claimed that it was just a scratch.

Answer Understatement

21 Better you should have a nose impertinent 1 as a flower, sensitive As a root; 1. Something impertinent is improperly bold or rude.

Answer Simile

22 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

23 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

24 Joesph is the best student in the world.

Answer Hyperbole

25 The knife laid still, angry that Andrew did not clean the peanut butter off of him.

Answer Personification

26 The water is like the sun.

Answer Simile

27 I’m so hungry I could eat a horse.

Answer Hyperbole

28 Levon’s cell phone dropped into the toilet like a falling star.

Answer Simile

29 Derrick is a real pig when he eats.

Answer Metaphor

30 The wind yells while blowing

Answer Personification

31 The sun greeted me this morning.

Answer Personification

32 The bottle rolled off the table like a tear drop.

Answer Simile

33 I told you a million times not to lie.

Answer Hyperbole

34 How could she marry a snake like that?

Answer Metaphor

35 I’m not a angel, but I wouldn’t behave like that.

Answer Metaphor

36 They ran like greased lightning.

Answer Hyperbole

37 The car winked at me.

Answer Personification

38 Time never waits for anyone.

Answer Personification

39 If the party was like a solar system, Savannah was like the sun.

Answer Simile

40 Levon is as awesome as a flying giraffe.

Answer Simile

41 India’s head was spinning with ideas.

Answer Metaphor

42 I will die if she asks me to dance.

Answer Hyperbole

43 Mr. Moss’s car was so fast is ripped through the road.

Answer Hyperbole

44 It wasn’t long before their relationship turned sour.

Answer Metaphor

45 The class worked so hard their brains hurt.

Answer Hyperbole

46 Opportunity knocked on the door.

Answer Personification