English 9 1st Semester Exam Review

What is the Conflict in The Giver?

• Man vs. Nature
• Time vs. Memories
• Individual vs. Society
• Love vs. Hate

Who wrote The Giver?

• Harper Lee
• Ayn Rand
• Edgar Allen Poe
• Lois Lowry

Identify the pronoun and antecedent: Sally came back to school after her appointment.

• Sally, appointment
• school, her
• Sally, her
• Sally, school

Identify the pronoun and antecedent: Jones and Smith made their presentation.

• Jones and Smith, presentation
• presentation, made
• their, presentation
• Jones and Smith, their

How the author develops the characters, especially the main character.

• Plot
• Characterization
• Setting
• Theme

What is the vantage point from which the writer tells the story

• Plot
• Point of View
• Characterization
• Theme

What is a struggle between two opposing forces

• Theme
• Characterization
• Conflict
• Plot

What is the central message or insight into life revealed through a literary work

• Plot
• Conflict
• Resolution
• Theme

What is the Motif of a story?

• reader knows something important that the characters in the story do not
• a character that changes as a result of the story's events
• general idea or common topic - typically just one or two words
• central message or insight into life revealed through a literary work

What is Dramatic Irony?

• character that struggles against the protagonist or causes them conflict
• reader knows something important that the characters in the story do not
• central message or insight into life revealed through a literary work
• the author’s attitude toward a subject