Characters
She is Scout's first grade teacher.
Who is Miss Caroline?
An event that occurs in Maycomb that is extremely rare in Alabama.
What is snow?
Scouts sees being called a "girl" as an insult by Jem.
What is femininity?
"Some tinfoil was sticking in a knot-hole just above my eye level, winking at me in the afternoon sun."
What is personification?
These birds "don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy...". According to Miss Maudie, that's why it's a sin to kill one.
What is a Mockingbird?
At the beginning, the children think he is a malevolent phantom.
Who is Boo Radley?
This is how Jem finds his pants when he returns to collect them in the middle of the night.
What is mended and folded?
What are prejudice and education?
"If she found a blade of nut grass in her yard, it was like the Second Battle of the Marne..."
What is a simile?
Who is Boo Radley?
She is the housekeeper and caretaker for the children.
Who is Calpurnia?
This is what happens to Miss Maudie's house, which leads to the children realizing that Boo Radley is actually a nice person.
What is a fire?
What is courage?
"We stood watching the street fill with men and cars while fire silently devoured Miss Maudie's house."
What is personification?
This family is very poor and uneducated, and their children are not expected to go to school after the first day.
Who are The Ewells?
He shoots the rabid dog in Chapter 10.
Who is Atticus?
What is Finch's Landing?
Atticus tells Scout that "Maycomb's usual disease" is when "reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up."
What is prejudice?
"I should be a ray of sunshine in my father's lonely life."
What is a metaphor?
The name of the person Atticus will be defending in Part 2 of the novel. Source of great conflict in the town of Maycomb.
Who is Tom Robinson?
He visits Maycomb in the summer and tells "big ones".
Who is Dill?
This event changes the children's perception of their father in Chapter 10.
What is killing the rabid dog?
Scout is punished by Uncle Jack even though he hadn't heard her side of the story.
What is justice?
"On the days he carried the watch, Jem walked on eggs."
What is a metaphor?
Miss Maudie laughs when Scout INCORRECTLY uses the word "morphodite" to describe the snowman. What aspect of Scout's character is shown through this example?
What is innocence?