Characters & Figurative Language
Narrator of story
Who is Scout Finch
What figurative device is being used in this quote?
"I am not. 'ts. morbid, watching a poor devil on trial for his life. Look at all those folks, it's like a Roman carnival.
Simile
What is the tone of this passage?
"There was nowhere to go, but I turned to go and met Atticus's vest front. I buried my head in it and listened to the small internal noises that went on behind the light blue cloth: his watch ticking the faint crackle of his starched shirt, the soft sound of his breathing."
What is comforting, calming.
What can you infer about Aunt Alexandra based on this passage?
"Aunt Alexandra fit into the world of Maycomb like a hand into a glove, but never into the world of Jem and me."
Aunt Alexandra gets along well with the people of Maycomb but she doesn't understand Jem & Scout.
What literary device is being used in this quote?
“Oh nothing, nothing,” she said, “somebody just walked over my grave.”
What is foreshadowing?
What literary device is used in this quote?
"Don't you look at me, Link Deas, like I was dirt. I ain't jumped you.." John looked at him as if he were a three-legged chicken..
Simile
What is the tone of this quote?
Atticus had retreated to his newspaper and Aunt Alexandra was worrying about her embroidery. Punk, punk, punk, her needle broke the taut circle. She stopped, and pulled the cloth tighter: punk, punk, punk.
What is furious/anger/agitated.
What can you infer from the passage?
"I was beginning to notice a subtle change in my father these days, that came out when he talked to Aunt Alexandra. It was a quiet digging in, never outright irritation."
Atticus is teaching Aunt Alexandra the rules of the house so she can't run things.
What two literary devices are being used in this quote?
Atticus turned his head and pinned me to the wall with his good eye. His voice was deadly.
What is hyperbole and personification?
What literary device is being used in this quote?
"Did you hear about?.. No? Well they say he was runnin' fit to beat lightning.."
Metaphor
What is the tone of this quote?
Atticus turned his head and pinned me to the wall with his good eye. His voice was deadly.
What is disapproving/ anger.
What can you infer about the passage?
" “If her (Mayella) right eye was blacked and she was beaten mostly on the right side of the face, it would tend to show that a left-handed person did it. Sherlock Holmes and Jem Finch would agree.”
The evidence is pointing to a left-handed person committing the crime. and that Tom Robinson couldn't have beat up Mayella.
What character is the quote describing?
"In addition to {his} newly developed characteristics, he had acquired a maddening air of wisdom."
Jem Finch
What literary device is being used in this quote?
“From rape to riot to runaways,” we heard him chuckle.
Alliteration
What is the tone of this passage?
"I could think of nothing to say to her. In fact I could never think of anything to say to her, and I sat thinking of past painful conversations between us."
Awkward, unloving
Create a thematic statement for the following quote:
What theme do you notice?
“It’s not necessary to tell all you know. It’s not ladylike--in the second place, folks don’t like to have somebody around knowin’ more than they do. "
It is important to understand how to interact and cooperate with other people.
What character is being described in the quote?
"{His} powerful shoulders rippled under his thin shirt. He rose to his feet and stood with his right hand on the back of his chair. He looked oddly off balance, but it was not from the way he was standing. His left arm was fully twelve inches shorter than his right, and hung dead at his side. "
Tom Robinson
What literary device is being used in this quote?
"We had almost seen {Boo} a couple times, a good enough score for anybody. But I still looked for him each time I went by. Maybe someday, we would see him. "
Foreshadowing
What tone is being used in this passage?
"What you want Lula?", she asked in tones I had never heard her use. ...
Again, I thought her voice strange: she was talking like the rest of them.
Curious
Who is the character being described in the quote? What is the tone of the quote?
"{He} was off again. Beautiful things floated around in his dreamy head. He could read two books to my one, but he preferred the magic of his own inventions."
Dill Harris. Dreamy, creative. Insightful