Trashketball 3 Figurative Language Rules of Trashketball 1
Trashketball 3 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 The soul selects her own society, Then shuts the door; On her divine majority Obtrude no more.
Answer Personification: The soul is given the ability to select societies and shut doors.
2 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.
Answer Metaphor: He compares the friendship to a bauble or bagatelle, a cheap trinket.
3 The terrier, down on the hearth, Twitches and barks in his sleep, Soft little foolish barks, More like a dream than a dog. . .
Answer Simile: The dog is compared to a dream using the word “like. ”
4 Gazing at the apex star configurations red picnic blanket the endless summer.
Answer Hyperbole: The summer is described as endless, which is an exaggeration.
5 Nor will a brave man choose to live when he, Full deeply drunk of life, has reached the dregs.
Answer Metaphor: life is compared to a drink. The end of life is compared to the end of a drink, one with food particles in the bottom.
6 As a white candle In a holy place, So is the beauty Of an aged face.
Answer Simile: an aged face was compared to a white candle using the word “as. ”
7 Gossiping on the country-side, Spring and the wandering breezes say, God has thrown Heaven open wide And let the thrushes out to-day.
Answer Personification: Spring and the wandering breezes are given the ability to talk.
8 Taking daughter’s boyfriend hostage may have been a bit extreme, But other fathers have done worse things when their daughters were sixteen.
Answer Understatement: Taking one’s daughter’s boyfriend hostage is more than “a bit” extreme.
9 Beautiful lie the dead; Like ships, the anchor dropped, In a deep water.
Answer Simile: The dead are compared to ships with anchors dropped.
10 I heard a cry in the night, A thousand miles it came, It was quiet then it was louder, My name, my name…
Answer Hyperbole: The speaker is exaggerating how loud the call was.
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