Literary Terms
The type of Narration the book is told in.
What is First Person?
The Finches cook who is also like a second mother
Who is Calpurnia?
The season the story takes place.
What is Summer?
How you know the people are poor.
What is- There is not much activity and there is not much for them to do. No where to go, nothing to buy, etc.
Strange Family. They do not associate with people around them
Who are The Radley's?
An interruption that shows details from an earlier time to help the reader understand the current situation.
What is a Flashback?
Died when Scout was two years old, of a heart attack
Atticus's wife
The year the story takes place.
What is 1933?
How do you know the novel is in the 30s?
How Jem describes Boo Radley
What is 6 and a half feet tall with a scar?
The series of events that centers on a conflict.
What is a plot?
Charlie Baker Harris, nephew to Aunt Rachel and summer companion to both Scout and Jem
Who is Dill?
The job that the father has.
What is a lawyer?
How Scout thinks of Calpurnia?
- tyrannic, pointy, mean, and harsh
The Radley's ill son.
Who is Boo?
A message that a story gives you without exactly saying it.
What is a theme?
Narrator of To Kill A Mocking Bird.
Who is Scout?
The town and state that the story takes place.
What is Maycomb, Alabama?
What do the kids think about the Radley house?
The tense that the story is told in.
What is past tense?
Combines clues from the passage with your own thoughts to understand a characters thinking or feeling.
What is an inference?
Jem and Scouts father
Who is Atticus Finch?
This is how Scout feels about school.
What is, upset, disappointed, etc.
What lives in the Radley house according to Scout.
What is a monstrous thing?
What is Satisfactory. He played with them and taught them lessons.