figurative langguage

1. Trashketball 2
Figurative Language

2. 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.

3. 1
Ah, happy hills! ah, pleasing shade!
Ah, fields belov'd in vain!

4. Answer
Personification: The hills are described
as happy.

5. 2
Amid young flowers and tender grass
Thy endless infancy shalt pass;

6. Answer
Hyperbole: Their infancy is described as
endless, when it surely must end.

7. 3
I reeled and shivered earthward like a
feather.

8. Answer
Simile: The speaker compared the way
he fell to a feather.

9. 4
He is a pearl within an oyster shell.
One of the richest of the deep;

10. Answer
Metaphor: He is compared to a pearl
without using the word “like” or “as.”

11. 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.

12. Answer
Hyperbole: The speaker claims that this
woman lived with no other thought than
to love and be loved by him, but that
must be an exaggeration.

13. 6
Love is a pie that must cool upon a shelf
before it is taken to market.

14. Answer
Metaphor: love is compared to a pie
without using the word “like” or “as.”

15. 7
The moon slides down the stair
To see who's there.

16. Answer
Personification: The moon is given the
ability to slide and to see.

17. 8
The sun flashing down on a gray-white sail
Like a scimitar from its sheath.

18. Answer
Simile: The sun is compared to a scimitar
or sword using the word “like.”

19. 9
He spent his paycheck
on lottery tickets but
winning the jackpot isn’t
the most likely occurrence.

20. Answer
Understatement: Winning the lottery is
almost impossible, not just an unlikely
occurrence.

21. 10
What time the sun divorced the day;
And all the shadows, glooming gray,
Proclaimed the sadness of the hour.

22. Answer
Personification: The sun is given the
ability to divorce. The shadows are
given the ability to proclaim.