To Kill A Mockingbird
Literary Terms
Writing Terms
Vocabulary
Misc.
100

The setting where TKAM takes place in (Time and place)

What is Maycomb, Alabama. 1933-1935.

100

Susan was a cheetah at the race today.

What is a Metaphor?

100

The most important sentence is a paragraph, it hints at what the paragraph will focus on.

What is a topic sentence?

100

This tropical fish is often seen off of the coast of Hawai'i.

What is humuhumunukunukuapua'a?

100

Often seen as a symbol of technology and civilization, this was often used to start fires for the plane wrecked boys.

What are Piggy's glasses?

200

In Chapter 8, this character puts a blanket around Scout while a fire burns Miss Maudie's house down.

Who is Arthur "Boo" Radley?

200
The perspective from which a story is told.
What is Point of View?
200

A sentence that reveals the main idea or topic of an essay and ties the paper together to a cohesive whole.

What is a Thesis Statement?

200

To burst or break open (usually a body part).

What is rupture?

200

Homer's preferred genre of story telling.

What is Epic Poetry?

300

Atticus' personal reason for taking on Tom Robinson's case.

What is Self-Respect? (Being able to look at and remain a father to his children).

300

Using one thing to represent another.

What is a Symbol?

300

The way a writer tells their readers that certain material in their work came from another source

What is a Citation?

300

To send someone in; to allow them to enter.

What is Admit?
300

This set of twins were hardly ever seen apart on the island the boys from The Lord of the Flies landed on.

Who are Sam'n'Eric?

400

The theme that questions how fair society really is. Featured predominantly when the Finch's spend Christmas with their family and Tom Robinson's case.

What is Justice?

400

The emotion created by the author's use of language or by a character's words and actions.

What is Tone?

400

Not merely a summary of a literary work. Instead, it is an argument about the work that expresses a writer's personal perspective or evaluation of the work.

What is Literary Analysis?

400

An evildoer; a person who does bad things.

What is a Malefactor?

400

Odysseus' homeland he was trying to return home to.

What is Ithaca?
500

Scout's first grade teacher who is new to Maycomb.

Who is Miss Caroline?

500

A story being told within a story.

What is a frame narrative?

500

The arrangement of ideas, incidents, evidence, or details in a logical order in a paragraph, essay, or speech.

What is Organization?

500

A bearded individual.

What is a whiskerando?

500

A struggle between opposing needs, desires, or emotions within a single character.

What is internal conflict?