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
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.
Answer
Hyperbole
3
Fast breaks. Lay ups.
Nothing but a hot
Swish of strings like silk
Ten feet out.
When girls
Cheered on the sidelines.
Answer
Simile
4
Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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
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.
Answer
Metaphor
7
old age sticks
up Keep
Off
signs)&
scolds Forbid
den Stop
Must
n’t Don’t
youth yanks them
down(old
age cries)
youth laughs
old age
&youth goes
right on
gr
owing old
Answer
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.
Answer
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
Chicago is a city that is fierce as a dog
with tongue lapping for action.
ANSWER
SIMILE
12
I could stare into your eyes
as a thousand years come and go.
ANSWER
HYPERBOLE
13
The sunshine threw his hat away.
ANSWER
Personification
14
Osama Bin Laden is not exactly a friend to
America.
ANSWER
METAPHOR
15
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?
ANSWER
SIMILE