TKAM
Commonly Confused
Citations
Figures of Speech
Sentence Structure
100
She lives across the street from Scout and Jem, and she often bakes them cakes.
Who is Miss Maudie?
100
This is the correct spelling of the word in the sentence (They're/Their/There) test was not hard because they studied.
What is "Their"?
100
These two pieces of information always go inside the parentheses in an internal citation.
What are author and page number?
100
A simile compares two unlike things using one of these two words.
What are "like" or "as"?
100
In FANBOYS, the letter Y stands for this compound conjunction.
What is "yet"?
200
At the end of the book, Scout compares this character to a mockingbird.
Who is Boo Radley?
200
This is the correct spelling of the word in the sentence: I ate (to/two/too) much cake.
What is "too"?
200
This piece of punctuation always goes after the internal citation, not inside the quotation marks.
What is a period?
200
The mockingbird is a __________ of innocence in TKAM.
What is a symbol?
200
"When the dog went" is an example of this kind of sentence.
What is a fragment?
300
This character gives Jem a white camelia.
Who is Mrs. Dubose?
300
This is the correct spelling of the word in the sentence: He had a better score (than/then) his friend.
What is "than"?
300
This punctuation lets you know that the words you are using come from a text you did not write.
What are quotation marks?
300
"The wind whispered through the dark and gloomy forest" is an example of this figure of speech.
What is personification?
300
"I went to the mailbox; then I went home" is an example of this kind of sentence.
What is a compound sentence?
400
Walter's father is a part of this group one night in front of the jail.
What is a lynch mob?
400
This is the correct spelling of the words in the sentence: They wanted (to/two/too) pieces of candy to take to (their/they're/there) friend.
What are "two" and "their"?
400
If the quoted material ends in this type of end punctuation, it will still go inside the quotation marks, and there will still be a period after the parenthetical citation.
What are exclamation and question marks?
400
"The snow is a white blanket" is an example of this figure of speech.
What is a metaphor?
400
"After the dinner bell rang, we went to our tables" is an example of this kind of sentence.
What is a complex sentence?
500
These are the first three things that Jem and Scout find in the tree.
What are gum, pennies, and figures carved in soap?
500
This is the correct spelling of the words in the sentence: The (weather/whether) was looking grim, but (then/than) the sky cleared.
What are "weather" and "then"?
500
This organization uses the abbreviation MLA.
What is the Modern Language Association?
500
In TKAM, social inequality is an example of this.
What is a them?
500
This is an example of a complex sentence.
What is (write your own).