Characters
Plot
Quotes
Motifs
Figurative Language
100
This is the main female character of the novel. She is quite a tomboy and learning the ways of the world.
Who is Scout (Jean Louise)?
100
This is the setting of the story; which plays an important role in the development of later events.
What is Maycomb, Alabama?
100
“Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
Who is Atticus?
100
Jem's emotions help to demonstrate this coming-of-age quality.
What is maturity?
100
"I thought Jem was counting his chickens."
What is idiom?
200
This character is shrouded in mystery and rumors, but is really a quite kind individual.
Who is Arthur "Boo" Radley?
200
This person's house burns down resulting in an encounter with Boo.
Who is Miss Maudie?
200

"Mockingbirds don’t do one thing except make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corn cribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird."

Who is Miss Maudie and/or Atticus?

200
Mrs. Dubose's white camellia flowers represent this idea.
What is purity or innocence?
200
" Jem waved my words away as if fanning gnats."
What is simile?
300
This man is trash. He alleges charges of rape against Tom Robinson, despite there being no evidence to support it.
Who is Bob Ewell?
300
The children learn that Atticus is not feeble when Tate calls on him to do this.
What is shoot Tim Johnson.
300
“Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'.”
Who is Reverend Sykes?
300

The entire trial (including Tom and Atticus) can be viewed as a representation of this.

What is racism, injustice, and/or morality.

300
"The house was the same, droopy and sick..."
What is personification?
400
This woman begins as an uppity snob, but melts into a caring, motherly figure by the end of the novel.
Who is Aunt Alexandra?
400
Taking his chances against the guards, Tom is shot this many times.
What is seventeen?
400
"I think there are just one kind of folks. Folks."
Who is Scout?
400
By filling the knot hole in the tree, Nathan Radley is symbolically doing this.
What is ending the children's relationship with Boo.
400
"I had never thought about it, but summer was Dill by the fishing pool smoking string..."
What is metaphor?
500

This man runs the local newspaper and is usually against black people's rights.

Who is Mr. Underwood?

500
Mrs. Merriweather put on this event, which both endangers and saves the children's lives.
What is the agriculture pageant?
500
"Next time you'll know how to do it right. won't you? Pull it up by the roots, won't you?"
Who is Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose?
500
Arthur Radley and the children demonstrate this well known idiom.
What is "don't judge a book by its cover"?
500
"You ain’t sendin’ me home, missus. I was on the verge of leavin’- I done done my time for this year."
What is dialect?
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