English 9: Final Review Part 1 - Literary Terms

What is the main idea of the paragraph below?
The attitudes of Americans toward gambling are amazingly contradictory. You may find, for example, that horse racing is legal in your state, but that you cannot legally play poker for money on your front porch; bookies may be prosecuted by state law, but they are supposed to purchase a federal license nonetheless; one church condemns gambling, while another raises money by sponsoring Bingo games. Gambling laws are inconsistent from state to state or even from town to town and are very difficult to enforce. 

• Americans have negative attitudes toward gambling
• Gambling laws are difficult to enforce 
• Gambling laws are inconsistent from community to community.
• Churches do not have uniform ideas about gambling.

"She was as sly as a fox" this is an example of:

• personification
• a simile
• a metaphor
• an allusion

"I loved to swim.  The feeling of weightlessness felt better than anything I had ever exprienced"    
This paragraph is written in what point of view?

• first person
• second person
• third person limited
• third person omniscent

"Juliette is the sun" 
is an example of:

• alliteration
• a simile
• a metaphor
• repetition

A type of poem with 14 lines written in iambic pentameter with 10 syllables per line is:

• iambic pentameter
• a sonnet
• free verse
• third person limited

The term "jumbo shrimp" is an example of a(n):

• sonnet
• imagery
• onomatapoeia
• oxymoron

What is the difference between static and dynamic characters?

• Static characters are the main characters, while dynamic characters are supporting 
• Static characters undergo little change and dynamic characters grow/change
• dynamic characters are found in prose and static characters are found in poetry
• static characters are only in first person narratives

The old house was dark and full of cobwebs.  It seemed as if no one had entered in at least a dozen years.  The floor boards creaked beneath our feet as we walked.
The above lines give the _________ of the story

• setting
• plot
• main idea
• theme

"Sam wrestled with what to do.  He always studied in the past, so would it really be so wrong to cheat on his vocabulary quiz just this one time?"
This is an example of

• external conflict
• internal conflict
• alliteration
• theme

“She sells sea-shells down by the sea-shore”
is an example of:

• allusion
• alliteration
• foreshadowing
• a metaphor