Transcript figurative language game

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 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 extracredit.
7. Shots will be made after ALL the questions
have been answered.
1
Without the slightest tinge of gold,
The city shivered in the cold.
Answer
Personification
2
Our right of thought-- our last and only place
of refuge.
Answer
Hyperbole
3
And half-submerged tomato-cans
Shine scaly, as leviathans
Answer
Simile
4
I pray to be the tool which to your hand
Long use has shaped and molded till it be
Apt for your need, and, unconsideringly,
You take it for its service.
Answer
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.
Answer
Hyperbole
6
Be patient with you?
When pain's iron bars
Their rivets tighten, stern
To bend and break their victims;
As they turn,
Feel Patience then?
Answer
Metaphor
7
It is cold on the terrace;
A pale wind licks along the stone slabs,
But the dog gazes through the glass
And is content.
Answer
Personification
8
They have watered the street,
It shines in the glare of lamps,
Cold, white lamps,
And lies
Like a slow-moving river,
Barred with silver and black.
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.
Answer
Understatement
10
The old wall will watch him,
Very quietly and patiently it will watch.
For the wall is old,
It is a Roman wall.
Answer
Personification