TKAM Figurative Language & MLA Citation Quiz

Which of the following is NOT a symbol in the novel?

• Mockingbird

• Tim Johnson the dog

• Fear

• Camellia flowers

Which of the following examples BEST fits the definition of a simile?

• “Jem’s white shirt-tail dipped and bobbed like a small ghost dancing away to escape the coming morning.”

• “I inched sluggishly along the treadmill of the Maycomb County school system”

• “The same shy smile crept across his face.”

• “The old courthouse clock suffered its preliminary strain and struck the hour, eight deafening bongs that shook our bones.”

Which of the following examples does NOT contain alliteration?

• “I could go straight home and keep my fat flopping mouth shut.”

• “Jem was in a haze for days.”

• “The swinging door to the dining room with a stinging smack”

• “[Atticus] did not… do anything that could possibly arouse the admiration of anyone.”

Which literary device BEST fits the following phrase: "the soft swish of cotton on cotton, wheek, wheek, with every step."

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

Which of the following examples BEST represents hyperbole? 

• "The events of the summer hung over us like smoke in a closed room."

• "The bass drum went boom with every sentence Mrs. Merriweather uttered."

• "[Maycomb] was a tired old town when I first knew it.”

• “After ten forevers Dr. Reynolds returned.”

Which of the following examples is NOT a metaphor?

• “Old Mrs. Radley died that winter, but her death caused hardly a ripple.”

• “Aunt Alexandra was standing stiff as a stork.”

• “I felt the starched walls of a pink cotton penitentiary closing in on me.”

• “I inched sluggishly along the treadmill of the Maycomb County school system.”

Which of the following examples is NOT personification? 

• “It’s all over town this morning… all about how we held off a hundred folks with our bare hands.”

• “The roses on [Calpurnia’s] hat trembled indignantly.”

• "The faded image of a gray house with sad brown doors.”

• “The old house was the same, droopy and sick.”

Which literary device BEST fits the following phrase:: “[Maycomb] remained the same size for a hundred years, an island in a patchwork sea of cottonfields and timberland.”

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

Which of the following examples is NOT a simile?

• “Good evening, Mrs. Dubose! You look like a picture this evening.”

• “She gave Jem a hot biscuit-and-butter… It tasted like cotton.”

• “A ripple in the quiet stream of family resemblance”

• “Place a trail of lemon drops from the back door to the front yard, and [Boo would] follow it, like an ant.”

Which literary device can you NOT find in the following phrase: “Judge Taylor was on the bench, looking like a sleepy old shark, his pilot fish writing rapidly below in front of him.”

• Oxymoron

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration