1. Trashketball
Figurative Language

2. Rules of Trashketball Stay in your seats at all times.
You will have seconds to discuss the answer to a question AND
Write ONE response to the question on a sheet of paper.
All teams will hold up their answers.
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.
If the shot is made, the team gets extra-credit.
Shots will be made after ALL the questions have been answered.

3. 1 A boy told me that if he roller-skated fast enough
his loneliness couldn’t catch up to him.

4. Answer
Personification

5. 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.

6. Answer
Hyperbole

7. 3 Fast breaks. Lay ups. Nothing but a hot Swish of strings like silk
Ten feet out.
When girls
Cheered on the sidelines.

8. Answer
Simile

9. Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.4
Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

10. Answer
Metaphor

11. 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.

12. Answer
Hyperbole

13. 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.

14. Answer
Metaphor

15. 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

16. Answer
Personification

17. 8 Better you should have a nose impertinent1 as a flower, sensitive
As a root;
1. Something impertinent is improperly bold or rude.

18. Answer
Simile

19. 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.

20. Answer
Understatement

21. 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–

22. Answer
Personification