Figurative Language and Poetic Elements

Which of the following are examples of onomatopoeias from KnockOut?

• man's man, ladies' man, man around town

• BOOM, shhh, BAM, zap

• "I feel the hairs on my neck stand up tall."

• "Smarter than an elephant"

What poetic element is used in the following lines of Knock Out:

"I know Dad wants this to be

our thing

a special secret

but

but

boxing?"

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• rhyme

• simile

Which line from Knock Out contains a metaphor?

• You're a little beast, Davidson.

• My opponent smiles

• takes off his headgear

• shakes his sweat in my face

K.A. Holt uses ________________ in the following lines of the book, to emphasize how little Levi can do while recovering from his concussion.

"No books.

No screens.

No visitors.

No helping Coach.

No thinking.

No anything."

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• alliteration

• repetition

What type of figurative language is used in this excerpt from the book?

"He can't land one hit. I am too fast, a tiny gorilla, mad, smart, and now I am laughing and the coach steps into the ring."

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

What does Levi mean when he calls Timothy's old journal "a blue time machine"?

• The journal is old.

• The journal is ticking.

• The journal looks like a time machine.

• The journal will allow him to see what happened in the past.

What literary device is used in the excerpt below?

"Mom would die,

keel over dead,

if she saw me right now.

If she saw me up here."

• hyperbole

• rhyme

• simile

• metaphor

What type of figurative language is used in the following excerpt?

"I try not to feel different even though I'm small, even though all vacations are to Cincinnati where I am knocked out, scoped, poked, x-rayed, released like an animal caught in the wild."

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

• simile

K.A. Holt uses figurative language to make her writing more descriptive. What type of figurative language does she use in the following lines?

"I want the wind to catch me

carry me off

break me free."

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

What two unlike things are being compared in the following simile?

"She (Tam) spikes the ball

and it smashes into the floor

like a meteor

from outer space."

• Tam and a meteor

• volleyball and a meteor

• Tam and Levi

• volleyball and outer space