1. Trashketball Figurative Language

2. Rules of Trashketball 1.Stay in your seats at all times. 2.You will have 30-60 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, 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.

3. 1 Without the slightest tinge of gold, The city shivered in the cold.

4. Answer Personification

5. 2 Our right of thought-- our last and only place of refuge.

6. Answer Hyperbole

7. 3 And half-submerged tomato-cans Shine scaly, as leviathans

8. Answer Simile

9. 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.

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 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?

14. Answer Metaphor

15. 7 It is cold on the terrace; A pale wind licks along the stone slabs, But the dog gazes through the glass And is content.

16. Answer Personification

17. 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.

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 The old wall will watch him, Very quietly and patiently it will watch. For the wall is old, It is a Roman wall.

22. Answer Personification