Trashketball

1. Trashketball Figurative Language

2. Rules of Trashketball • Stay in your seats at all times. • You will have 30-60 seconds to discuss the answer to a question AND • Write ONE response to the question on a sheet of paper. • All teams will hold up their answers. • 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. • If the shot is made, the team gets extra-credit. • Shots will be made after ALL the questions have been answered.

3. 1 A boy told me that if he roller-skated fast enough his loneliness couldn’t catch up to him.

4. Answer Personification

5. 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.

6. Answer Hyperbole

7. 3 Rabbits running so very fast In the field of green, green grass. Sniffing for scents of snack time treats, Hippity Hopping on their happy bunny feet.

8. Answer Alliteration

9. 4 Fast breaks. Lay ups. Nothing but a hot Swish of strings like silk Ten feet out. When girls Cheered on the sidelines.

10. Answer Simile

11. 5 Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

12. Answer Metaphor

13. 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.

14. Answer Hyperbole

15. 6 Leaping Lions leap after lengthy naps. They sleepily stretch strong appendages

16. Answer Alliteration

17. 7 Batches of colors explode Tiny, bearded men scamper While wicked beasts howl Crystal walls gleam and shimmer

18. Answer Imagery

19. 8 Swoosh, whoosh a salty sea soars, splish-splash colossal waves a roar. Drip-drop, a leaky faucet spent, trickle, streaming tears repent.

20. Answer Onomatopoeia

21. 9 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.

22. Answer Metaphor

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24. Answer Simile

25. 11 Blue green like a crayon is the glistening, warm water. The brownish sand is warm between my welcoming toes. The excited shouts of the little kids As they send loud bursts of water at each other.

26. Answer Imagery

27. 12 The teapot sang as the water boiled The ice cubes cackled in their glass the teacups chattered to one another.

28. Answer Personification

29. 13 Slam! Slam!Go the car doors.  Jangle! Jangle!Go the house keys.Jiggle! Jiggle!Go the keys in the door.Squeak!Goes the front door!

30. Answer Onomatopoeia

31. 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.

32. Answer Personification

33. 14 Then it grows; Its stem pops up and then a leaf, very green. And then a bud like a raindrop opens up like an umbrella.

34. Answer Simile

35. 15 Love is a burning candle It's not always easy to handle It burns, but it's still beautiful And it makes celebrations oh so meaningful

36. Answer Metaphor

37. 16 Crystalized trees etched upon the sky Gently painted with pastel colors A hue of pink, a touch of blue Surrounded by the softest purple

38. Answer Imagery

39. 17 Crackling hearts, burned apart, smoldering pain from the start. Hissing highs, kissing goodbye, a burning love affair denied.

40. Answer Onomatopoeia

41. 18 Take thankful thy talent, thank thankfully those That thriftily teach thee thy time to transpose.

42. Answer Alliteration

43. 19 My mouth erupted lava And my tongue began to melt. My ears were shooting jets of steam.At least that’s how they felt.

44. Answer Hyperbole

45. 20 An emerald is as green as grass, A ruby red as blood; A sapphire shines as blue as heaven; A flint lies in the mud.

46. Answer Simile