Literary Elements
This is the message or lesson in a story.
What is theme?
"The classroom was a zoo" is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is a metaphor?
This spelling is used to show excess of something.
Too, to, or two
What is too?
These characters from To Kill a Mockingbird are figuratively considered "mockingbirds."
Who are Boo Radley and Tom Robinson?
This type of rhetorical appeal is used when Atticus says, "I have nothing but pity in my heart for the Chief Witness for the State. She is the victim of cruel poverty and ignorance…”
What is pathos?
This perspective is used in this example: "He walked to work, worried he'd be late. When he entered, his boss gave him a smug look and considered firing him on the spot."
What is third person omniscient?
"Sally sells seashells by the seashore" is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is alliteration?
True or false: This spelling of "You're" uses a contraction.
True.
You're is a contraction of "You" and "are"
This is Maycomb's "usual disease."
What is prejudice/racism?
This type of rhetorical appeal is used when Atticus says, "The state has not produced one iota of medical evidence to the effect that the crime Tom Robinson is charged with ever took place”
What is logos?
This is the author’s attitude toward the subject or audience (ex: formal, optimistic, ironic)
What is tone?
The mockingbird in To Kill a Mockingbird is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is a symbol?
True or false: There should be no apostrophe in the sentence below:
Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
False.
The correct punctuation is:
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
The Scarlet Ibis represents this character.
Who is Doodle?
This type of rhetorical appeal is used when Atticus says, "There is circumstantial evidence to indicate that Mayella Ewell was beaten savagely by someone who led almost exclusively with his left... and Tom Robinson now sits before you, having taken the oath with the only good hand he possesses - his right hand.”
What is logos?
This is the definition of situational irony.
What is "the actual outcome of an event or situation is the exact opposite of what was reasonably expected?"
These two literary devices are used in this quote: “The drops stung my face like nettles and the wind flared the wet, glistening leaves of the bordering trees.”
What is simile and imagery?
This is where you'd place the apostrophe when something belongs to multiple students (Ex: the students teacher)
What is students'?
Ex: The students' teacher.
This is a reason for why we study the Scottsboro Boys trial.
It is the inspiration for the court case in To Kill a Mockingbird, it shows what society was like during the time period in which To Kill a Mockingbird is set, and it stresses the theme of social inequality in To Kill a Mockingbird
This type of rhetorical appeal is used when Atticus says, "I am confident that you gentlemen will review without passion the evidence you have heard, come to a decision, and restore this defendant to his family.”
What is pathos?
This type of conflict is used in this example: A character struggles to decide whether they should do the right thing or the thing which will bring them the most joy.
What is an internal conflict or individual vs. self conflict?
"Looks like we aren't in Kansas anymore" is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is an allusion?
This answer is the correct way to format an in-text citation:
A. Scout “tried to climb into Jem’s skin and walk around in it” (Lee 62).
B. Scout “tried to climb into Jem’s skin and walk around in it (Lee, 62).”
C. Scout “tried to climb into Jem’s skin and walk around in it.” (Lee 62)
D. Scout “tried to climb into Jem’s skin and walk around in it” (Lee pg 62).
E. Scout “tried to climb into Jem’s skin and walk around in it.” (Lee pg 62)
What is A?
Scout “tried to climb into Jem’s skin and walk around in it” (Lee 62).
This is what Aunt Alexandra is most worried about.
What is family name and/or social manners?
This type of rhetorical appeal is used when Atticus says, "And so a quiet, respectable, humble Negro who had the unmitigated temerity to ‘feel sorry’ for a white woman has had to put his word against two white people’s…”
What is ethos?