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Vocabulary
To Kill a Mockingbird
Persuasive
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
Miscellaneous
100
A plan or method to reach a specific goal AND Important and relevant to the subject
What is strategies and pertinent?
100
He is the father of Scout and Jem and he is a lawyer in Maycomb.
Who is Atticus Finch?
100
This is also known as an an assertion and a thesis and it explains what the author is going to convince his/her audience of.
What is an argument?
100
A practice or policy of segregating or discriminating against African Americans, in public places, public vehicles, or employment.
What are the Jim Crow laws?
100
The gossip from To Kill a Mockingbird.
Who is Miss Stephanie?
200
To conclude or judge based on evidence AND Not effective; incompetent
What is inferences/infer and inefficient?
200
She is the cook for the Finch family and she helps take care of Scout and Jem.
Who is Calpurnia?
200
These are the supporting points that help the thesis/assertion/argument be persuasive.
What are the main points?
200
Period of time in history where people lost their jobs, crops went bad, and the country was in an economic downturn.
What is the Great Depression?
200
Writing that tries to convince the audience to think one way or another.
What is persuasive writing?
300
Adjust to the environment AND An advantage; something that is advantageous or good
What is adapt and benefit?
300
The narrator of the story, and sister to Jem Finch.
Who is Scout?
300
Uses logos (facts, statistics, numbers) to help support the main points in an argument.
What is evidence?
300
When you are prejudiced towards one idea over another.
What is bias?
300
Uncertainty about a defendant's guilt.
What is reasonable doubt?
400
To put into effect (a plan put into effect) AND A supply or source of aid or support
What is implement and resources?
400
Atticus explains that this family "...had been the disgrace of Maycomb for three generations."
Who are the Ewells?
400
When you anticipate the concerns your audience might have regarding your argument, and then offer a solution to their concerns.
What is a counterargument and rebuttal?
400
The "phantom" of Maycomb who is accused of eating raw squirrels and neighborhood pets.
Who is Boo Radley?
400
12 people assigned to determine the guilt or innocence of the defendant.
What is a jury?
500
Influence or effect AND To get ready for something
What is impact AND geared?
500
This family won't take what they can't pay back.
Who are the Cunninghams?
500
An appeal to your morals or ethics to "do the right thing".
What is ethos?
500
Calpurnia describes him as, "...the meanest man ever God blew breath into".
Who is Mr. Radley?
500
Person assigned to prove that the defendant is GUILTY of a crime.
Who is the prosecutor?