Trashketball Figurative Language

Rules of Trashketball 1.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

7 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

8 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 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