LITERARY ELEMENTS #15 TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

Literary Elements #15 Ch 24-25 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.     1.    On page 228, what is ironic about this passage?  “…I heard Mrs. Grace Merriweather giving a report …on the squalid lives of the Mrunas.  ..they put their women out in huts when their time came whatever that was; they had no sense of family—I knew that ‘d distress Aunty—they subjected children to terrible ordeals when they were thirteen; they were crawling with yaws and earworms; they chewed up and spat out the bark of a tree into a communal pot and then got drunk on it.  Immediately thereafter, the ladies adjourned for refreshments. 

2. On page 230, find a metaphor for Miss Stephanie Crawford. 

What do you think her purpose was in saying, “Why shoot, I thought you wanted to be a lawyer, you’re already commenced going to court!”

           

3.  On page 230, find a simile that describes Mrs. Merriweather’s voice.

4.  On page 231, what is ironic about this statement that Mrs. Merriweather made:  “If we just let  them know we forgive ‘em , that we’ve forgotten it, then this whole thing will blow over.”

5. On page 233, Mrs. Merriweather is saying “…some good but misguided people in this town…think they’re doing right…but all they did was stir ‘em up.”  Who is she talking about? Why does  Miss Maudie interrupt with, “His food doesn’t stick going down, does it?”

6. On p. 234-235 we learn that Atticus has come home early from the office.  What’s wrong?   

           

7.  Why did Tom try to get away when he was in the exercise yard?  Why didn’t he wait for Atticus to appeal his case? 

8.  On page 236, what point is Aunt Alexandra making about the ladies at her tea party when she says, “What else do they want from him, Maudie?  …They’re perfectly willing to let him wreck his health doing what they’re afraid to do themselves—it might lose ‘em a nickel.  They’re perfectly willing to let him wreck his health doing what they’re afraid to do… “

9. On page 237, Scout seems to have a different attitude about her Aunt Alexandra.  What does Scout say and do at the end of the chapter that indicates this change of attitude? 

10. On page 238-9, Jem tells Scout not to squash a caterpillar because “…they don’t bother you.”    Scout says,  “Jem was the one who was getting more like a girl every day, not I.”
What literary element is this an example of?

11.  On page 240, find a simile that refers to what happened to Helen Robinson when she heard the news about her husband.

12.  On page 240, what was the reaction of the people of Maycomb to the news of Tom’s death? 

What is wrong with the way they think?

13. On page 241, find a second reference to the title of this book. 

What was the first reference to it?

14. On page 241, find a metaphor that refers to Miss Stephanie Crawford.

15.  On page 241, find a metaphor for Mr. Ewell.      
     What does that expression mean?

     What literary element is this?  “Mr. Ewell said it made one down and about two more to go.”