Trashketball 3Figurative 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 AND3. 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.
1
The soul selects her own society,Then shuts the door;On her divine majorityObtrude no more.
Answer
Personification: The soul is given the ability to select societies and shut doors.
2
You say that you are wronged--ah, well,I count that friendship poor, at bestA bauble, a mere bagatelle,That cannot stand so slight a test.
Answer
Metaphor: He compares the friendship to a bauble or bagatelle, a cheap trinket.
3
The terrier, down on the hearth,Twitches and barks in his sleep,Soft little foolish barks,More like a dream than a dog . . .
Answer
Simile: The dog is compared to a dream using the word “like.”
4
Gazing at the apexstar configurationsred picnic blanketthe endless summer.
Answer
Hyperbole: The summer is described as endless, which is an exaggeration.
5
Nor will a brave man choose to live when he,Full deeply drunk of life, has reached the dregs.
Answer
Metaphor: life is compared to a drink. The end of life is compared to the end of a drink, one with food particles in the bottom.
6
As a white candleIn a holy place,So is the beautyOf an aged face.
Answer
Simile: an aged face was compared to a white candle using the word “as.”
7
Gossiping on the country-side,Spring and the wandering breezes say,God has thrown Heaven open wideAnd let the thrushes out to-day.
Answer
Personification: Spring and the wandering breezes are given the ability to talk.
8
Taking daughter’s boyfriend hostage
may have been a bit extreme,
But other fathers have done worse things
when their daughters were sixteen.
Answer
Understatement: Taking one’s daughter’s boyfriend hostage is more than “a bit” extreme.
9
Beautiful lie the dead;Like ships, the anchor dropped,In a deep water.
Answer
Simile: The dead are compared to ships with anchors dropped.
10
I heard a cry in the night,A thousand miles it came,It was quiet then it was louder,My name, my name, my name…
Answer
Hyperbole: The speaker is exaggerating how loud the call was.