Trashketball

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Trashketball

• Figurative Language

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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 extra-credit.
   
7. Shots will be made after ALL the questions have
   been answered.

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• A boy told me
• that if he roller-skated fast enough
• his loneliness couldnt catch up to him.

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Answer

• Personification

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• 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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Answer

• Hyperbole

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• 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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Answer

• Simile

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• Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

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Answer

• Metaphor

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• 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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Answer

• Hyperbole

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• A big room with heavy wooden tables, heavy oak
  chairs.
• To the left side the card catalogue.
• All those booksanother worldjust waiting at my
  fingertips.

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Answer

• Metaphor

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old age sticks up Keep Off signs) youth yanks them down(old age cries) youth laughs old age scolds Forbid den Stop Must nt Dont youth goes right on gr owing old
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• Personification

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• Better 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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Answer

• Simile

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• 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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Answer

• Understatement

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• 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 cant hear you
• calling
• Look out how you use proud words.

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Answer

• Personification