Comparing two things using like or as
Simile
“Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases. In your case, the law remains rigid. So to school you must go.”
Atticus Finch
Comparing two things NOT using like or as
Metaphor
“I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.”
Scout Finch
Giving human like qualities to non-human things/objects
Personification
"I thought I wanted to be a lawyer but I ain’t so sure now!"
Jem Finch
For example, The mockingbird in To Kill a Mockingbird
symbol
“Secretly, Miss Finch, I’m not much of a drinker, but you see they could never, ever, understand that I live like I do because that’s the way I want to live.”
Dolphus Raymond
Scout does this in the courtroom when she remembers Atticus shooting Tim Johnson
Flashback
“I waited and waited to see you all come down the sidewalk, and as I waited I thought, Atticus Finch won’t win, he can’t win, but he’s the only man in these parts who can keep a jury out so long in a case like that.”
Miss Maudie
Who is the president of the United States at the time the events of the story occur?
Franklin D. Roosevelt