Literary
Elements #6 Chapter 9 To Kill a Mockingbird Name:__________
Metaphor - A comparison that does not use "like" or "as." Ex. The road was a ribbon of moonlight.
Simile - A comparison using "like" or "as." Ex. Her voice sounds like an angel’s.
Personification - Giving an animal, object, or idea human characteristics or personality. Ex. My car stubbornly refused to start today.
Allusion - A reference in literature to a famous person, place, or event.
Hyperbole – An exaggeration or overstatement. Example: I was so embarrassed I could have died.
Euphemism – Substituting a mild, indirect, or vague term for one considered harsh, blunt, or offensive.
Irony – When the opposite of what you would expect happens.
Colloquialism - regional or cultural saying
Foreshadowing – The author gives a hint of what is to come later in the story.
1. Find a euphemism for getting a spanking. p. 74.
2. On p.75 find a colloquialism that means “…thinking about something else.”
3. On p. 75, find a simile
that refers to Atticus's defense of a black man, according to Cecil Jacobs.
What is a still?
4.
On p. 76, find an example of foreshadowing. It refers to the future outcome of the
trial.
5.
What might be considered a little strange about how Scout addresses her
father? P.76
Why would
Atticus allow his children to call him by his first name?
6. On p. 76, find a statement that
is very ironic. It is about who is
fighting against Atticus as he defends the black man.
7.
On p. 77, what metaphor is used to describe Aunt Alexandra?
8. On p. 78, what is Atticus's method of dealing with Scout’s cussing? (How does he choose to handle it?) Notice what he says to Uncle Jack.
9. On p. 81 what is the metaphor that scout uses to describe what it is like to talk to her cousin Francis?
8. On p. 78, what is Atticus's method of dealing with Scout’s cussing? (How does he choose to handle it?) Notice what he says to Uncle Jack.
9. On p. 81 what is the metaphor that scout uses to describe what it is like to talk to her cousin Francis?
10. What metaphor on p. 81 explains what scout
was supposed to be in her father’s life?
(This is from Aunt Alexandra's view point. She thinks scout should act like a girl.)
11. On p. 83, what metaphor does Francis use for Dill? (What does he refer to Dill as?)
12. On p. 83, Francis comments, “Grandma says
it’s bad enough that he lets you all run wild…”
What is Atticus’s sister saying about Atticus in that statement?
13. What is the irony of situation in this
scene? (p. 83) [Francis is telling scout all the things that are wrong with Atticus—even
calling him a nigger-lover who raises his children with no manners.]
14. On p. 86, Scout describes her
fight with Francis. She says something
that is a colloquialism. She is
referring to how much Francis provoked her.
15. On p. 88, Atticus says something that foreshadows
what’s coming to the family in the future.
What does he say?
16. Can you find the Biblical allusion on
p. 88?
To what does this refer?
17. On p. 88 Atticus refers to “Maycomb's usual disease.” What do you think this disease is?
18. What evidence is there in this chapter that
Atticus is a very good father?
