LITERARY ELEMENTS #13

Literary Elements #13  Ch 19 – 20  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."
Personification - Giving an animal, object, or idea human characteristics or personality
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.

1. On page 191, what do you notice about Tom Robinson’s testimony that does not agree with Mayella Ewell’s? 

2.  On page 191, Scout says Mayella Ewell must have been the loneliest person in the world.  To whom does she compare Mayella’s loneliness to? 

          In what ways are these two alike?
                     

3.  Find a simile on page 192 that tells how Mayella Ewell viewed Tom Robinson because he had embarrassed her.

4. What is so important about the fact that according to Tom Robinson, Mayella had sent the children to town for ice cream?  

     What could have been done to prove the truth of this statement? P. 193

5. Why does Judge Taylor become so angry when Link Deas, Tom Robinson’s employer, tells everyone in court that Tom was a good worker?  P. 195

6. On page 195, find a metaphor that describes Judge Taylor and how he looks at Atticus after Link Deas made his comment.   
 

7. On page 197-198, Tom Robinson answers Mr. Gilmer, the opposing attorney, by saying, “…I don’t say she’s lying, Mr. Gilmer.  I say she is mistaken in her mind.”
What is the difference?

8. On p. 198, why does Scout have to take Dill outside?  What bothered Dill so much?


9. On page 201, Scout says, “I never encountered a being who deliberately perpetrated fraud against himself.”  She was referring to Dolphus Raymond .  What did she mean?

10.  On page 201, what do you think this colloquialism means?  “…your pa’s not a run-of-the-mill man…” 

11. On page 201, Scout says she was “…Between two fires.”  What does this metaphor mean? 

12.  On page 202, Jems says this about the trial:  “He’s just gone over the evidence and we’re gonna win, Scout.  I don’t see how we can’t.”  What do you suppose the author is trying to tell the reader by making that statement?

           

13. On page 202, Atticus did something he had never done before in court.  What was it that he did?

       What does that action symbolize? 

14.   On page 203, in his summary speech before the jury, Atticus says Mayella accused Tom because “…She must destroy the evidence of her offense.”  What was Mayella Ewell’s offense in the eyes of Maycomb?

15. Why would Mayella want harm to come to Tom Robinson if he was the only man who had ever been kind to her?

16. Find an allusion to a famous piece of historical literature on page 205. 

17.  What’s the point of the last sentence in chapter 20, page 206? 

“We followed his finger with sinking hearts.  Calpurnia was making her way up the middle aisle, walking straight toward Atticus.”