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 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.

3. “the icing on the cake”

4. Makes a good situation even better

5. “You got ants in your pants!”

6. Not able to sit still

7. The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky.

8. personification

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

10. hyperbole

11. It’s raining money!

12. Metaphor

13. The thunder grumbled and clouds cried.

14. personification

15. 1 Oreos are milk’s favorite cookie.

16. Answer Personification

17. 2 “Guillermo, stop talking! I told you a thousand times.”

18. Answer Hyperbole

19. She has a bubbly personality.

20. metaphor

21. 3 Down by the garbage dump, the sky is a snotty handkerchief.

22. Answer Metaphor

23. 4 Angel has a heart of stone

24. Answer Metaphor

25. The phone awakened with a mighty ring!

26. personification

27. Janet has a rollercoaster of emotions.

28. metaphor

29. 5 My computer has an attitude sometimes and turns itself off.

30. Answer Personification

31. 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.

32. Answer Hyperbole

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

34. Personification & simile

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

36. understatement

37. 7 School is heaven on earth!

38. Answer Metaphor

39. 8 Even a child could carry my dog, Cocoa. She is such a feather.

40. Answer Metaphor

41. 9 I had a diamond as clear as glass

42. Answer simile

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

44. hyperbole

45. It was a bit cold outside this morning.

46. understatement

47. 10 Destiny has tons of money.

48. Answer Hyperbole

49. 11 Miriam saw the puppy and froze with fear

50. Answer Metaphor

51. 12 The 49ers’ Group talks a little bit.

52. Answer Understatement

53. I have a million things to do today!

54. hyperbole

55. 13 Fast breaks. Lay ups. Nothing but a hot Swish of strings like silk Ten feet out. When girls Cheered on the sidelines.

56. Answer Simile

57. 14 Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

58. Answer Metaphor

59. 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.

60. Answer Hyperbole

61. 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.

62. Answer Metaphor

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

64. understatement

65. 17 That drink is as sweet as honey

66. Answer Simile

67. 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

68. Answer Personification

69. 19 The wind screamed as it raced around the house.

70. Answer Personification

71. 20 After the head-on collision, the driver claimed that it was just a scratch.

72. Answer Understatement

73. 21 Better you should have a nose impertinent 1 as a flower, sensitive As a root; 1. Something impertinent is improperly bold or rude.

74. Answer Simile

75. 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.

76. Answer Understatement

77. 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.

78. Answer Personification

79. 24 Joesph is the best student in the world.

80. Answer Hyperbole

81. 25 The knife laid still, angry that Andrew did not clean the peanut butter off of him.

82. Answer Personification

83. 26 The water is like the sun.

84. Answer Simile

85. 27 I’m so hungry I could eat a horse.

86. Answer Hyperbole

87. 28 Levon’s cell phone dropped into the toilet like a falling star.

88. Answer Simile

89. 29 Derrick is a real pig when he eats.

90. Answer Metaphor

91. 30 The wind yells while blowing

92. Answer Personification

93. 31 The sun greeted me this morning.

94. Answer Personification

95. 32 The bottle rolled off the table like a tear drop.

96. Answer Simile

97. 33 I told you a million times not to lie.

98. Answer Hyperbole

99. 34 How could she marry a snake like that?

100. Answer Metaphor

101. 35 I’m not a angel, but I wouldn’t behave like that.

102. Answer Metaphor

103. 36 They ran like greased lightning.

104. Answer Hyperbole

105. 37 The car winked at me.

106. Answer Personification

107. 38 Time never waits for anyone.

108. Answer Personification

109. 39 If the party was like a solar system, Savannah was like the sun.

110. Answer Simile

111. 40 Levon is as awesome as a flying giraffe.

112. Answer Simile

113. 41 India’s head was spinning with ideas.

114. Answer Metaphor

115. 42 I will die if she asks me to dance.

116. Answer Hyperbole

117. 43 Mr. Moss’s car was so fast is ripped through the road.

118. Answer Hyperbole

119. 44 It wasn’t long before their relationship turned sour.

120. Answer Metaphor

121. 45 The class worked so hard their brains hurt.

122. Answer Hyperbole

123. 46 Opportunity knocked on the door.

124. Answer Personification