Literary Terms
Academic Vocab
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These are the People in Scout's Neighborhood
Atticus-isms
100
This is the atmosphere or predominant emotion in a literary work, the effect of the words on the audience.
What is mood?
100
These are the methods a director uses to communicate meaning and to evoke particular emotional responses from viewers.
What are cinematic techniques?
100
These begin with either who, whom, that, which, or whose and modify nouns much like adjectives do.
What are relative clauses?
100
This is the character who fills in the knot-hole with cement.
Who is Nathan Radley?
100
Because of the mean, old Mrs. Dubose, this is the character Atticus told to "just hold [their] head high."
Who is Jem?
200
The arrangement of words and the order of grammatical elements in a sentence.
What is syntax?
200
You can use this, the circumstances or conditions in which the thing exists or takes place, to infer meaning and to better understand a situation.
What is context?
200
These help focus on matters of fact, meaning, and relevance in order to identify themes in literary texts.
What are Levels of Questions?
200
The daughter of one Dr. Buford, this character grew up with the Finches.
Who is Miss Maudie?
200
When Atticus tells Scout that "sometimes it's better to bend the law a little in special cases" he was talking about this Maycomb family.
Who are the Ewells?
300
This type of external conflict is when one struggles against laws or expectations.
What is person vs. society?
300
These are used for citing sources directly in an essay so as to avoid plagiarism.
What are parenthetical citations?
300
These are the three main features of a summary.
What are main/essential ideas, brevity, and your own words?
300
This is the character whom Jem replicates as a snowman.
Who is Mr. Avery?
300
According to Atticus, you can't really understand a person until you do this.
What is 'climb into someone else's skin and walk around in it.'
400
In a paragraph, this is the elaboration, discussion, or explanation of the significance of the textual evidence provided.
What is reflective commentary?
400
When you do this to something, you are making a judgment—one that most likely results from some degree of analysis about the value or worth of the information, idea, or object.
What is evaluate?
400
This is a two part tool for tracking and giving credit to sources used for your research.
What is an annotated bibliography?
400
This is the relative whom Scout fights because they disparaged Atticus.
Who is Francis?
400
This is the character Atticus tells that "Calpurnia's not leaving this house until she wants to. You may think otherwise, but I couldn't have gotten along without her all these years."
Who is Alexandra?
500
Writers pay attention to these, the small differences between words that have similar meanings knowing that careful word choice helps them add interest and clarity to their writing.
What are nuances?
500
This is a characteristic of the formal style used for analysis in which events in a written work are referred to as if they are currently happening.
What is the "literary present" tense?
500
This is the character Dill stays with during his summers in Maycomb.
Who is Miss Rachel?
500
Atticus defines this as not a man with a gun in his hand, but rather "it's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."
What is courage?
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