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 Rabbits running so very fast In the field of green, green grass.
Sniffing for scents of snack time treats,
Hippity Hopping on their happy bunny feet.

8. Answer
Alliteration

9. 4 Fast breaks. Lay ups. Nothing but a hot Swish of strings like silk
Ten feet out.
When girls
Cheered on the sidelines.

10. Answer
Simile

11. Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.5
Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

12. Answer
Metaphor

13. 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.

14. Answer
Hyperbole

15. 6 Leaping Lions leap after lengthy naps.
They sleepily stretch strong appendages

16. Answer
Alliteration

17. 7 Batches of colors explode Tiny, bearded men scamper
While wicked beasts howl
Crystal walls gleam and shimmer

18. Answer
Imagery

19. 8
Swoosh, whoosh a salty sea soars, splish-splash colossal waves a roar.
Drip-drop, a leaky faucet spent, trickle, streaming tears repent.

20. Answer
Onomatopoeia

21. 9 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.

22. Answer
Metaphor

23. 10 Imagine a snail As big as a whale, Imagine a lark
As big as a shark,
Imagine a bee
As big as a tree,
Imagine a goat
As long as a boat
And a flea the same size as me
by Roland Egan

24. Answer
Simile

25. 11 Blue green like a crayon is the glistening, warm water.
The brownish sand is warm between my welcoming toes.
The excited shouts of the little kids
As they send loud bursts of water at each other.

26. Answer
Imagery

27. 12 The teapot sang as the water boiled
The ice cubes cackled in their glass
the teacups chattered to one another.

28. Answer
Personification

29. 13
Slam! Slam! Go the car doors.   Jangle! Jangle! Go the house keys. Jiggle! Jiggle! Go the keys in the door. Squeak! Goes the front door!

30. Answer
Onomatopoeia

31. 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–

32. Answer
Personification

33. 14 Then it grows; Its stem pops up and then a leaf, very green.
And then a bud
like a raindrop
opens up like an umbrella.

34. Answer
Simile

35. 15 Love is a burning candle It's not always easy to handle
It burns, but it's still beautiful
And it makes celebrations oh so meaningful

36. Answer
Metaphor

37. 16 Crystalized trees etched upon the sky
Gently painted with pastel colors
A hue of pink, a touch of blue
Surrounded by the softest purple

38. Answer
Imagery

39. 17 Crackling hearts, burned apart, smoldering pain from the start.
Hissing highs, kissing goodbye, a burning love affair denied.

40. Answer
Onomatopoeia

41. 18 Take thankful thy talent, thank thankfully those
That thriftily teach thee thy time to transpose.

42. Answer
Alliteration

43. 19 My mouth erupted lava And my tongue began to melt.
My ears were shooting jets of steam. At least that’s how they felt.

44. Answer
Hyperbole

45. 20 An emerald is as green as grass, A ruby red as blood;
A sapphire shines as blue as heaven;
A flint lies in the mud.

46. Answer
Simile