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By The Waters of Babylon Literary Elements Quiz

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

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

a)

Allegory

b)

Personification

c)

Idiom

2.

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

a)

Personification

b)

Setting

c)

Metaphor

3.

What were the 3 symbols that the narrator saw?

a)

The lady, the tiger, and the palace

b)

The eagle, the white fawn, and the black panther

c)

Place of the Gods, Ashing, UBTREA

4.

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

a)

Metaphor

b)

Personification

c)

Allegory

5.

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

a)

Point of View

b)

Allusion

c)

Idiom

6.

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.

a)

Idiom

b)

Allegory

c)

Imagery

7.

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

a)

Irony

b)

Symbolism

c)

Polysyndenton

8.

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

a)

Symbolism

b)

Personification

c)

Setting

9.

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

a)

Allusion

b)

Allegory

c)

Irony

10.

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

a)

Irony

b)

Idiom

c)

Simile

11.

"My heart was cold as a frog and my legs like water, but the burning in my mind would not let me have peace." Which two elements are being used?

a)

Simile and Metaphor

b)

Simile and Personification

c)

Simile and Polysyndenton

12.

"Truth is a hard deer to hunt..." is an example of

a)

Allegory

b)

Alliteration

c)

Metaphor