Literary Elements #11 To
Kill a Mockingbird Ch 16
Name: ________
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. 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.
Symbol – An object stands for or represents an idea.
Pun – “Sounds like” joke; words with a double meaning.
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. 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.
Symbol – An object stands for or represents an idea.
Pun – “Sounds like” joke; words with a double meaning.
1. On page 156 find a metaphor that
describes Aunt Alexandra’s inner anger. It makes her sound like she is a furnace
giving off heat.
2. Find an allusion
to a famous person on page 156. Why would Mr. Underwood want to “live down”
his name?
3. On page 157, find
a metaphor that refers to the way Atticus was acting towards Aunt
Alexandra’s bossy ways. This is a “battle ground” metaphor. What do you think it means?
4. On page 157 find
a colloquialism that means Mr. Cunningham was able to understand things
from Atticus’s perspective.
5. On page 159 find a simile that Miss
Maudie uses to describe the steady stream of people coming into Maycomb to see
Tom Robinson’s trial.
6. On page 160, find an allusion to a
famous person in history.
7. On page 160, what
does this statement made by Miss Maudie seem to imply about her
neighbor? What is the tone of the
comment?
8. On page 161, Jem
explains to his sister why Mr. Dolphus Raymond is an outcast in Maycomb. What is the reason?
9. What point do you think the author is making
on page 162 when Scout continues to ask, “But how can you tell?” (if someone
is of mixed race) Jem’s response
continues to be, “You just have to know.”
10. On page 162 find an example of hyperbole. It refers to how ridiculous the people of
Maycomb were when it came to race.
11. The description
of the Maycomb County courthouse indicates there are two kinds of architecture
fused together because of a previous fire, early Victorian with Greek columns
and a 19th Century clock tower.
What might this symbolize?
12. Find an example
of alliteration at the bottom of page 162. Alliteration is the repetition of consonant
sounds in poetry.
13. What is ironic and paradoxical about what men in the Idlers Club say about
Atticus?
14. What is symbolic about where Dill,
Jem, and Scout sit during the trial in the courthouse? P. 164
15. On pages 164-165, find a simile that
refers to Judge Taylor.
16. When the Cunninghams and the Conninghams got
into a dispute in court, Judge Taylor threw the case out. What did he say was the reason? What does it mean to “throw a case out?” (metaphor)
