By The Waters of Babylon Literary Elements Quiz

The narrator says, “my knowledge and my lack of knowledge burned in me..." This is an example of

• Allegory

• Personification

• Idiom

“Then I raised my eyes and looked south. It was there, the Place of the Gods.” Which literary device is being used here?

• Personification

• Setting

• Metaphor

What were the 3 symbols that the narrator saw?

• The lady, the tiger, and the palace

• The eagle, the white fawn, and the black panther

• Place of the Gods, Ashing, UBTREA

“I tried to think of my knowledge but it was a squirrel’s heap of winter nuts.” This is a...

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Allegory

“I am a priest and the son of a priest!" is an example of..

• Point of View

• Allusion

• Idiom

He sees among the ruins letters carved into broken stone: UBTREAS. There is also “a shattered image of a man or a god . . . who wore his hair tied back like a woman's." On a cracked stone he reads the god's name: ASHING. John prays to ASHING, although he never heard of that god.

• Idiom

• Allegory

• Imagery

"I prayed and purified myself, waiting for a sign. The sign was an eagle. " What is this an example of?

• Irony

• Symbolism

• Polysyndenton

“It is simply a great Dead Place. There are old, cracked god-roads and ruins of the gods' towers” is an example of....

• Symbolism

• Personification

• Setting

"How shall I tell what I saw? The towers are not all broken..." is an.......

• Allusion

• Allegory

• Irony

“It is a great knowledge, hard to tell and believe. They were men—they went a dark road, but they were men."

• Irony

• Idiom

• Simile