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"Don't count your chickens before they've hatched."
What is idiom?
100
the mockingbird
What is a symbol?
100
"You never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them."
What is theme?
100
elucidate
What is to make clear, to explain
100
What is to ease, to mitigate.
What is assuage?
200
Someone calls Atticus what sounds like a bad name to Scout, but Atticus says that is is not. People have attached negative overtones to it.
What is connotation?
200
"Zeebo cleared his throat and read in a voice like the rumble of distant artillery."
What is a simile?
200
"The old house was the same, droopy and sick."
What is personification?
200
laconic
What is using a minimum of words?
200
an ideal instance
What is paragon?
300
"Calpurnia was all angles and bones; she was nearsighted; . . . . "
What is direct characterization?
300
the point of view of TKMB
What is first person?
300
". . . he bought cotton, "a polite term for doing nothing
What is euphemism?
300
impotent
What is powerless?
300
liveliness and eagerness
What is alacrity?
400
The whole of To Kill a Mockingbird is told as . . .
What is flashback?
400
appears at the beginning of a novel or chapter
What is epigraph?
400
"That man seems to have a permanent running grudge against everybody connected with that case."
What is foreshadowing?
400
impudent
What is shamelessly bold, rude, disrespectful.
400
expressing or feeling regret or sorrow for having committed sins
What is penitent?
500
Miss Maudie described Atticus as saying "Atticus Finch is the same in his house as he is on the public streets."
What is indirect characterization?
500
Hoover cart
What is allusion?
500
strict, dictionary definition
What is denotation?
500
domicile
What is home or residence?
500
harsh verbal reprimand
What is castigation?