By the Waters of Babylon Quiz

“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

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"By the Waters of Babylon," the title, is an...

• example of irony

• example of simile

• Allusion

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

• Author's Purpose

• Point of View

• Irony

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"My heart was troubled about going east, yet I knew that I must go." is an example of...

• Allusion

• Simile

• Irony

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

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

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

• Irony

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

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

• Author's Purpose & Irony

• Personification & Hyperbole

• Setting & Author's Purpose

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

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

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"There was the great river below, like a giant in the sun. It is very long, very wide. It could eat all the streams we know and still be thirsty." contains these three literary elements:

• Personification, simile, & setting

• Hyperbole, metaphor, & point of view

• Personification, allusion, & irony

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"This is a very strong dream," he said. "It may eat you up." is both

• Hyperbole & simile

• Point of view

• Personification & hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

"I told and he listened. After that, I wished to tell all the people but he showed me otherwise. He said, "Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you may die of the truth. It was not idly that our fathers forbade the Dead Places." " contains both...

• Setting and author's purpose

• Hyperbole and simile

• Author's Purpose & hyperbole