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.

TrashketballFigurative Language

Rules of Trashketball1. 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 extra-credit.

1A boy told me

that if he roller-skated fast enough

his loneliness couldn’t catch up to him.

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Personification

2Sarah 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

3Fast 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 broken-winged

bird that cannot fly.

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Metaphor

5It 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

6A 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

7old age

Sticks up Keep Off signs

& youth yanks them down

Old age cries

youth laughs

old age

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Personification

8Better you should

have a nose

impertinent1

as a flower,

sensitive

As a root;

1. Something impertinent is improperly bold or rude.

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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

10Look 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.

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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

13Crack an EggCrack 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

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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 batterit will make my batter bitter,but a bit of better butterwill make my batter better.So she bought a bit of butterbetter than her bitter butter,and she put it in her batterand the batter was not bitter.So ’twas better Betty Botterbought a bit of better butter.

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Alliteration

16

I was nuts about a scarlet womanwith a silvery tongue, but we werejust ships in the night.So much for the green light,now it’s raining cats and dogsbut 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 windowand counted the steps of the sun,and they both took root in the carpetwhere the topaz tortoises run.

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Personification