Trashketball 3 Figurative Language

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Trashketball 3Figurative 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

extra-credit

7 Shots will be made after ALL the questions

have been answered.

Personification: The soul is given the ability

to select societies and shut doors.

You say that you are wronged ah, well,

I count that friendship poor, at best

A bauble, a mere bagatelle,

That cannot stand so slight a test

Metaphor: He compares the friendship to a bauble or bagatelle, a cheap trinket

The terrier, down on the hearth,Twitches and barks in his sleep,Soft little foolish barks,

More like a dream than a dog

Simile: The dog is compared to a dream using the word “like.”

Gazing at the apex

star configurations

red picnic blanket

the endless summer

Hyperbole: The summer is described as endless, which is an exaggeration.

Nor will a brave man choose to live when he,

Full deeply drunk of life, has reached the dregs

Simile: an aged face was compared to a white candle using the word “as.”

Gossiping on the country-side,

Spring and the wandering breezes say,God has thrown Heaven open wide

And let the thrushes out to-day

Personification: Spring and the wandering breezes are given the ability to talk.

Taking daughter’s boyfriend hostage

may have been a bit extreme,

But other fathers have done worse thingswhen their daughters were sixteen

Understatement: Taking one’s daughter’s boyfriend hostage is more than “a bit” extreme.

Beautiful lie the dead;

Like ships, the anchor dropped,

In a deep water

Simile: The dead are compared to ships with anchors dropped

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…

Hyperbole: The speaker is exaggerating how loud the call was.