Characters
Lied about being raped
Who is Mayella Ewell?
"It's bad children like you makes the seasons change."
Who is Mr. Avery?
The era that followed the stock market crash of 1929
What is the Great Depression?
An appeal to audience through the integrity of the speaker or the character
What is ethos?
The story takes place in this fictional town.
What is Maycomb, Alabama?
Tells wild-made up tales - Scout's fiance.
Who is "Dill" Charles Baker Harris?
"I think I'm beginning to understand something. I think I'm beginning to understand why Boo Radley's stayed shut up in the house all this time...it's because he wants to stay inside."
Who is "Jem" Jeremy Atticus Finch?
Laws that segregate blacks and whites
What are the Jim Crow Laws?
An appeal to the audience through the facts and/or evidence of a situation
What is Logos?
This man's picture appeared in the Montgomery Advertiser.
Who is Atticus Finch?
The hateful, courageous morphine addict.
Who is Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose?
"There are just some kind of men who--who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results."
Who is Mrs. Maudie?
What is being unsure of a defendant's guilt?
An appeal to the audience through the emotion of a situation
What is Pathos?
This man was rumored to have poisoned pecans.
Who is Boo Radley?
Gave Helen Robinson a job after Tom's death.
Who is Link Deas?
"You'll have a very unladylike scar on your ring finger."
Who is Uncle Jack Finch?
Harper Lee's Neighbor during her childhood
Who is Truman Capote?
When Atticus says, "There is not a person in this courtroom who has never told a lie, who has never done an immoral thing, and there is no man living who has never looked upon a woman without desire" it is an example of this rhetorical appeal.
What is logos?
This man helped Atticus guard Tom Robinson at the jail house.
Who is Mr. Underwood?
Pretends to be drunk but really drinks coke.
Who is Dolphus Raymond?
"Let the dead bury the dead."
The real historical court case on which much of To Kill a Mockingbird is based
When Atticus says, "She is the victim of cruel poverty and innocence...She did something that every child has done--she tried to put the evidence away from her" it is an example of this rhetorical appeal (272).
What is pathos?
What is prejudice?