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Maycomb
Characters
Background
Plot
Figurative language
100
This is the state in which the story is set.
What is Alabama?
100

This is the narrator of the story (Full Name).

Who is Jean Louis Finch, "Scout"?

100
This is the author of TKAM.
Who is Harper Lee?
100

Why is it a sin to kill a mockingbird?

Because "Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens...don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us."

100
This quote is an example of what type of fig. lang? "She had bright auburn hair, pink cheeks, and wore crimson fingernail polish. She also wore high-heeled pumps and a red-and-white-striped dress. She looked and smelled like a peppermint drop."
What is a simile?
200

This was what Atticus called Maycomb's usual disease.

What is racism/prejudice?

200
This is the noble and courageous man who is the father of Jem and Scout.
Who is Atticus Finch?
200
This is the time period in which the story is set.
What is the 1930s?
200
This person's tragedy caused nearly all of the town to pitch in in order to help. Tell the person and the tragedy.
What is Miss Maudie's house burning to the ground?
200
"Molasses buckets appeared from nowhere, and the ceiling danced with metallic light" is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is personification?
300
This animal was known as the pet of Maycomb.
What is Tim Johnson, an old liver-colored bird dog?
300
This person spanks Scout for cussing at and fighting Francis Hancock, her third cousin.
Who is Uncle Jack Finch, Atticus' younger brother?
300

What Laws allowed states to enforce segregation?

Jim Crow Laws

300
This act causes the much of town to doubt Atticus' intentions.
What is him accepting the Tom Robinson case?
300
"There was no color in his face except at the tip of his nose, which was moistly pink." is an example of this type of fig. lang.
What is imagery?
400

True or False: Maycomb County is a real town in Alabama

False. Maycomb County is a fictional town

400

This person comes to Maycomb every summer and stays with Miss Rachel, the Finch's neighbor (Full Name).

Who is Charles Baker Harris, "Dill"?

400
This passion actually got Harper Lee in trouble at school, just like Scout.
What is her love of reading?
400
This caused Jem to think that someone was watching him and knew what he was thinking. hint: It happened the night he, Scout and Dill tried to sneak a peek into the Radley house.
What is his pants were laid nicely over the fence and were crudely sewn up?
400
"When I passed the Radley Place for the fourth time that day-twice at a full gallop-my gloom had deepened to match the house." These two types of fig. lang. are used in this quote.
What are alliteration and metaphor?
500
This was the last time it had snowed in Maycomb.
What is 1885?
500
This is "malevolent phantom" who Maycomb county has deemed and a crazy fiend.
Who is Arthur "Boo" Radley?
500
These were the real life trial on which Atticus' case is based.
What are the Scottsboro trials?
500
This was Jem's punishment for destroying Mrs. Dubose's flowers.
What is he had to read to her every day for one hour for a month?
500
"Her face was the color of a dirty pillowcase, and the corners of her mouth glistened with wet, which inched like a glacier down the deep grooves enclosing her chin." Two types of fig. lang. in this quote.
What are imagery and simile?