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, my name…
Answer
Hyperbole: The speaker is exaggerating
how loud the call was.