figurative language trashketball
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TrashketballFigurative Language
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Rules of TrashketballStay in your seats at all times.You will have 30-60 seconds to discuss the answer to a question ANDWrite ONE response to the question on a sheet of paper.All teams will hold up their answers.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.If the shot is made, the team gets extra-credit. Shots will be made after ALL the questions have been answered.
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1Without the slightest tinge of gold,The city shivered in the cold.
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AnswerPersonification
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2Our right of thought-- our last and only place of refuge.
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AnswerHyperbole
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3And half-submerged tomato-cansShine scaly, as leviathans
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AnswerSimile
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4I pray to be the tool which to your handLong use has shaped and molded till it beApt for your need, and, unconsideringly,You take it for its service.
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AnswerMetaphor
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5It was many and many a year ago,In a kingdom by the sea,That a maiden there lived whom you may knowBy the name of Annabel Lee;-And this maiden she lived with no other thoughtThan to love and be loved by me.
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AnswerHyperbole
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6Be patient with you? When pain's iron barsTheir rivets tighten, sternTo bend and break their victims; As they turn,Feel Patience then?
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AnswerMetaphor
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7It is cold on the terrace; A pale wind licks along the stone slabs, But the dog gazes through the glass And is content.
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AnswerPersonification
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They have watered the street,It shines in the glare of lamps,Cold, white lamps,And liesLike a slow-moving river,Barred with silver and black.
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AnswerSimile
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9Columbus 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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AnswerUnderstatement
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10The 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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AnswerPersonification