To Kill a Mockingbird
This family lives behind the Maycomb dump
Who are the Ewells?
This type of word or phrase helps a writer to move smoothly from one idea to the next
What is a transition?
These two boys interviewed each other and people from their neighborhood for the book
Who are LeAlan and Lloyd?
The argument opposite to the one you are trying to make
What is a counterclaim?
This punctuation mark surrounds an in-text citation
What are parentheses?
This character claims that you have to walk around in someone's skin to get to know them
Who is Atticus Finch?
This punctuation mark should follow a transitional word or phrase
What is a comma?
LeAlan compares life in his neighborhood to life during this war
What is the Vietnam War?
When a counterclaim is made in an argumentative essay, a writer should use this to re-establish their own claims
What is a refutation?
An alphabetized list of resources you used for an essay
What is a Works Cited list?
This person has a different way of talking around black people than she does around white people
Who is Calpurnia?
The transition "however" is frequently used to show this type of relationship between two ideas
What is a contrast?
This serious problem causes Lloyd's dad to be mostly absent from his life
What is alcoholism?
This sentence states the purpose of the entire essay
What is the thesis?
One advantage of using this resource to research information is that all articles are peer-reviewed
What is a database?
This is Scout's costume on the night of the pageant; it may have saved her life
What is a ham?
The transition "therefore" is frequently used to show this type of relationship between ideas
What is cause and effect?
A slang term used to describe kids in the boys' neighborhood
What is shorty?
In a MELCon-style essay, this section of the body paragraph clearly explains the thoughts and reasoning central to your argument
What is a link?
This term is applied when you steal someone else's information or ideas without citing them
What is plagiarism?
These two characters can most closely be compared to "mockingbirds"
Who are Tom Robinson and Boo Radley?
"To summarize" is a transition that best fits in this part of an essay
What is the end?
This serious problem causes LeAlan's mother to lose custody of her children
What is a mental illness?
These rhetorical strategies are frequently used together to build a strong persuasive argument
What are logos, ethos, and pathos?
In an in-text citation, you need this information about an author
What is the author's last name?