Trashketball

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Trashketball

• Figurative Language

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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.

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• Without the slightest tinge of gold,
• The city shivered in the cold.

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Answer

• Personification

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• Our right of thought-- our last and only place of
  refuge.

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Answer

• Hyperbole

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• And half-submerged tomato-cans
• Shine scaly, as leviathans

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Answer

• Simile

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• I pray to be the tool which to your hand
• Long use has shaped and molded till it be
• Apt for your need, and, unconsideringly,
• You take it for its service.

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Answer

• Metaphor

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• 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.

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Answer

• Hyperbole

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• Be patient with you?
• When pain's iron bars
• Their rivets tighten, stern
• To bend and break their victims
• As they turn,
• Feel Patience then?

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Answer

• Metaphor

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• It is cold on the terraceA pale wind licks
  along the stone slabs,But the dog gazes through
  the glassAnd is content.

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• Personification

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• They have watered the street,
• It shines in the glare of lamps,
• Cold, white lamps,
• And lies
• Like a slow-moving river,
• Barred with silver and black.

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• Simile

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• Columbus thought he was going to India, so one
  could say that he was a little off course when he
  landed in North America.

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• Understatement

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• The old wall will watch him,
• Very quietly and patiently it will watch.
• For the wall is old,
• It is a Roman wall.

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Answer

• Personification