Trashketball
Figurative Language
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 your
whiteboard
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 extracredit.
1
A boy told me
that if he roller-skated fast enough
his loneliness couldn’t catch up to him.
Answer
Personification
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.
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Hyperbole
3
Fast breaks. Lay ups.
Nothing but a hot
Swish of strings like silk
Ten feet out.
When girls
Cheered on the sidelines.
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Simile
4
Life is a brokenwinged bird that
cannot fly.
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Metaphor
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.
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Hyperbole
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.
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Metaphor
7
old age
Sticks up Keep Off signs
& youth yanks them down
Old age cries
youth laughs
old age
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Personification
8
Better you should
have a nose
impertinent1
as a flower,
sensitive
As a root;
1. Something impertinent is improperly bold or rude.
Answer
Simile
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.
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Understatement
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
11
Pretty princess Penny picked priceless
Peonies for her purple party.
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Alliteration
12
'You
can't cry over spilled milk! '
my mother always said.
'Life's not a piece of cake! '
she hammered in my head.
'That's the way it goes,
' that's the way the cookie crumbles’
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Idiom
13
Crack an Egg
Crack an egg.
Stir the butter.
Break the yolk.
Make it flutter.
Stoke the heat.
Hear it sizzle.
Shake the salt,
just a drizzle.
Flip it over,
just like that.
Press it down.
Squeeze it flat.
Pop the toast.
Spread jam thin.
Say the word.
Breakfast's in
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Onomatopoeia
14
I cried over beautiful things knowing no beautiful things last.
The field of cornflower yellow is a scarf at the neck of the copper
sunburned woman, the mother of the year, the taker of seeds.
The northwest wind comes and the yellow is torn full of holes,
new beautiful things come in the first spit of snow on the northwest
wind, and the old things go, not one lasts.
-Carl Sandburg
Answer
Metaphor
15
Betty Botter by Mother Goose
Betty Botter bought some butter,
but, she said, the butter’s bitter;
if I put it in my batter
it will make my batter bitter,
but a bit of better butter
will make my batter better.
So she bought a bit of butter
better than her bitter butter,
and she put it in her batter
and the batter was not bitter.
So ’twas better Betty Botter
bought a bit of better butter.
Answer
Alliteration
16
I was nuts about a scarlet woman
with a silvery tongue, but we were
just ships in the night.
So much for the green light,
now it’s raining cats and dogs
but it’s not the end of the world.
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Idiom
15
Two Sunflowers
Move in the Yellow Room.
"Ah, William, we're weary of weather,"
said the sunflowers, shining with dew.
"Our traveling habits have tired us.
Can you give us a room with a view?"
They arranged themselves at the window
and counted the steps of the sun,
and they both took root in the carpet
where the topaz tortoises run.
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Personification