Trashketball 3

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Trashketball 3

• 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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• The soul selects her own society,Then shuts the
  doorOn her divine majorityObtrude no more.

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Answer

• Personification The soul is given the ability to
  select societies and shut doors.

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• You say that you are wronged--ah, well,I count
  that friendship poor, at bestA bauble, a mere
  bagatelle,That cannot stand so slight a test.

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Answer

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

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• The terrier, down on the hearth,Twitches and
  barks in his sleep,Soft little foolish
  barks,More like a dream than a dog . . .

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Answer

• Simile The dog is compared to a dream using the
  word like.

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• Gazing at the apexstar configurationsred
  picnic blanketthe endless summer.

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Answer

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

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• Nor will a brave man choose to live when he,Full
  deeply drunk of life, has reached the dregs.

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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.

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• As a white candleIn a holy place,So is the
  beautyOf an aged face.

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Answer

• Simile an aged face was compared to a white
  candle using the word as.

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• Gossiping on the country-side,Spring and the
  wandering breezes say,God has thrown Heaven open
  wideAnd let the thrushes out to-day.

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Answer

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

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• Taking daughters boyfriend hostage
• may have been a bit extreme,
• But other fathers have done worse things
• when their daughters were sixteen.

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Answer

• Understatement Taking ones daughters boyfriend
  hostage is more than a bit extreme.

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• Beautiful lie the deadLike ships, the anchor
  dropped,In a deep water.

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Answer

• Simile The dead are compared to ships with
  anchors dropped.

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• 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

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Answer

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