Plot
Character
Language 1
Language 2
Setting & Main Ideas
100
The moment of most excitement in a story, when the conflict becomes most difficult.
Climax
100
The person who tells the story
Narrator
100
"yonder" "moseyin'" and "nome" are examples of this
colloquialisms
100
"Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it."
Personification
100
mockingbird, songbird
motif
200
My special knowledge of the Cunningham tribe—one branch, that is—was gained from events of last winter. Walter’s father was one of Atticus’s clients. After a dreary conversation in our livingroom one night about his entailment, before Mr. Cunningham left he said, “Mr. Finch, I don’t know when I’ll ever be able to pay you.”
Flashback
200
Bob Ewell's role in this story.
Antagonist
200
"Know everything that’s happened here since before I was born."
hyperbole
200
Nothing is more deadly than a deserted, waiting street. The trees were still, the mockingbirds were silent, the carpenters at Miss Maudie’s house had vanished.
Suspense
200
“First of all,” he said, “if you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you’ll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view-” “Sir?” “-until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.”
Theme
300
A hint or clue about an event that happens later in the story.
Foreshadowing
300
This term can be either direct or indirect. Pick the correct term & define both types.
Characterization. Direct characterization is description of a character in the story. Indirect characterization is things you learn about a character through their actions and speech.
300
Give two examples of "malapropisms" from To Kill a Mockingbird.
There are multiple answers. "Morphodite" is one. Also the "Dewey Decimal System" example. There are one or two more.
300
The term for when two things are compared in order to show their differences.
juxtaposition
300
The boy stood up. He was the filthiest human I had ever seen. His neck was dark gray, the backs of his hands were rusty, and his fingernails were black deep into the quick. He peered at Miss Caroline from a fist-sized clean space on his face.
Visual Imagery
400
Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough.
Epiphany
400
The attitude of the speaker towards what they are talking about.
tone
400
This term is used to compare two things in order to show their similarities. It can be done either using like or as or by direct comparison.
Analogy
400
A term for when the outcome of an event is the opposite of what the reader expects.
irony
400
"...some of the younger ladies wore Rose. They smelled heavenly."
Olfactory imagery
500
A short story a character or the narrator tells within a larger story. The story is made up of a separate event, but may be related in some way.
Anecdote
500
“An‘ they chased him ’n‘ never could catch him ’cause they didn’t know what he looked like, an‘ Atticus, when they finally saw him, why he hadn’t done any of those things… Atticus, he was real nice…”
Stream of Consciousness
500
"Your boy never stabbed Bob Ewell,” he said slowly, “didn’t come near a mile of it and now you know it. All he wanted to do was get him and his sister safely home.”
Ambiguity
500
Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself.
allusion
500
It was not unlike one I had last winter, and I shivered, though the night was hot. The feeling grew until the atmosphere in the courtroom was exactly the same as a cold February morning, when the mockingbirds were still, and the carpenters had stopped hammering on Miss Maudie’s new house, and every wood door in the neighborhood was shut as tight as the doors of the Radley Place. A deserted, waiting, empty street, and the courtroom was packed with people. A steaming summer night was no different from a winter morning.
atmosphere
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