Metaphors
Extend this metaphor:
My life is just the Minecraft Movie.
If you managed to do it, you can steal 700 points from another team.
Choose a teammate to make this sentence parallel:
Sometimes, you are the chicken jockey. Sometimes, _______________.
If you got this right, you get 300 points. If you get this wrong, you get 500 because chicken jockey.
Choose someone from your team to engage in a dance battle with an elected member from another team of your choosing. (You choose the team, they choose the opponent). The class will then vote on the winner.
If you won, you lose 1000 points. You needed to be nerfed a bit, as you are too powerful. If you lost, you only lose 50 points.
Wow, wow, wow. Your eyes shine as if they were Minecraft Diamonds. You are the Alex to my Steve.
Find all of the rhetorical devices with your group. I will give you what I feel like is enough time.
If you could find them all, you get 250 points and you get to choose a group to lose 250 points.
Swap points with the losing team. If you are the losing team, lose another 1000 points.
JK you actually get to swap points with the winning team. If you are the winning team, you get 1000 points bonus.
"The Minecraft Movie melted me to my very core."
What visual is the metaphor providing?
A.) The Minecraft movie as being uncomfortably hot and burning the speaker
B.) The Minecraft movie as being cool and melting like ice to the speaker's hot and appreciate touch
C.) The speaker of the quote as hot as fire and melting the frozen Minecraft Movie
D.) The speaker of the quote as melting like a candle in the heartfelt warmth of the Minecraft Movie
D, but if you got it right, you lose 200 points because chicken jockey.
Create a parallel sentence on the board about Steve.
If you got this right, you get 200 points. If you get this wrong, you have to give 200 points to the losing team. If you are the losing team, you have to give 200 to the winning team.
Bruh, you are too small-minded. You need to think outside the bun for once and live mas.
What is this sentence alluding to?
Taco Bell. If you get this right, you get 1000 points because Taco Bell. If you get it wrong, you lose 1000 points because Taco Bell.
Taco Bell is love.
Taco Bell is life.
Taco Bell.
This poem utilizes which rhetorical device?
Anaphora. Yes technically repetition counts, but if you said anaphora, you get 200 points. If you said repetition, you only get 2 points.
Swap points with the winning team. If you are the wining team, gain 1000 points.
Actually, you are swapping points with the losing team. If you are the losing team, lose another 500 points.
Make a metaphorical motivational phrase out of this term: Chicken Jockey.
You have 1 minute.
If you did it, you get 1,000 points bc chicken jockey.
Why is it called parallel structure?
The grammatical structure is parallel.
If you got this right, +300 points. -100 if wrong.
Wow, this meal is giving lava chicken, girlie. You slay.
What is this an allusion to?
The Minecraft Movie. If you got this right, enjoy your 2 points.
Which rhetorical device is this?
Honestly, snapchat is just a digital game of hot potato. The photos are the potatoes, and the snapstreak is the timer. It also burns when the snapstreak is dropped.
This is an extended metaphor. If you got this right, both you and the losing team get 500 points. If you are the losing team, you get nothing.
What are the names of my cats? You can review with your team.
If you actually got all 3 cats, you slay, and you get 1000 points. You also get to take away 1000 points from a team of your choosing.
I am holding onto the idea of summer as if it were Steve and Garbage Man holding on for dear life in that one scene in The Minecraft Movie.
This is actually a simile. If you said anything other than this, you lose 1,000 points. If you said the right answer, you get 5.
Engage in a staring competition with a competing team member from another team.
Whoever won gets 400 points. Whoever lost gets 500 points.
Pick a team to gain 500 points.
Cool
We are going to have to wait a gazillion years for the next Minecraft Movie, which is still too short tbh.
What rhetorical device is used here?
Hyperbole. You get 600 points if you got this right. You lose 900 points if you got it wrong.
Choose a team. Any team.
The team you chose just lost 1000 points.
Choose a team member to do an interpretive dance to this metaphor:
You are my sunshine, my only sunshine.
If you did the dance, you get to steal 200 points from any team of your choosing.
Which of these is parallel?
A.) The Minecraft Movie slays; The Snow White Movie bombs.
B.) Take me to your Xbox to play Fortnite today.
C.) You have been promoted; You are one of my elite employees.
D.) Help
A, but if you got it right, -500 bc Jack Black. -50 for getting it wrong.
Pick a team to lose 500 points.
The team you picked actually gets 500 points.
Taco Bell hates to see you coming.
What is this an example of?
This is personification. If you got this right, you get 5 points. If you got this wrong, you have to give away 100 of your points to the team who is winning.
Your team gets to choose a member for this one. Your team also get to pick the team they are up against. You get to choose who they must send up. You both have 1 minute to draw the best picture. I will select the victor.
Whoever won just lost 1000 points for being a show-off. The loser gets 1000 points.