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What is a simile?
A comparison using "like" or "as" Ex. "Life is like a box of chocolates."
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What is dialogue?
A conversation between two or more people.
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What is the central idea?
The main idea or main point that the author is making, or what the text is mostly about.
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What is a Symbol/Symbolism?
An object, person, situation, event, or action that represents something else.
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What is left-handed?
Atticus had Bob Ewell write in court to prove that he was this type of person.
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What is a metaphor?
Direct comparison. "The front is a cage."
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What is foreshadowing?
Clues that hint at what is going to happen later in the plot.
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What is the purpose?
When an author is instructing, entertaining, or persuading the reader.
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What is figurative language?
Phrasing that goes beyond the literal meaning of words to get a message or point across.
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Scout Finch says this to Atticus at the end of the novel. She is talking about letting the town know that Boo Radley saved the children from Bob Ewell. It would destroy the life he created for himself, and he didn't do anything to deserve it.
This character said, "Well, it'd be sort of like shooting a mockingbird, wouldn't it?" (Make sure you can explain the significance),
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What is personification?
Gives human characteristics to non-humans. Ex. "The trees whispered in the breeze."
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What is a theme?
The moral or lesson that the story is trying to teach/convey.
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What is an inference?
The act of coming to a conclusion based on facts or making an educated guess.
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What is a rhyme scheme?
The pattern of end rhymes in a poem.
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Who is Mrs. Dubose?
Jem learns a lesson about bravery after destroying this character's flowers.
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What is tone?
The author/speaker's attitude toward the subject.
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What is an allusion?
A reference to a person, place, or another work of literature.
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What is structure?
How a passage is organized. Ex. Compare and contrast, cause and effect, etc.
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What is alliteration?
The repetition of consonant sounds in words that are close to one another. broken baby bottle
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What is hypocrisy?
What did the Ladies' Missionary Circle represent or symbolize? Remember, Aunt Alexandra was a member of this organization, and she invited them over for tea.
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What is hyperbole?
Extreme exaggeration. Ex. "I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse."
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What are connotations?
The positive or negative feelings/emotions that are associated with a word.
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What is a rhetorical question?
The use of a question for persuasion that doesn't really need to be answered by the reader.
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What are couplets?
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme.
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Who is Mr. Raymond?
This character said, "Secretly, Miss Finch, I'm not much of a drinker, but you see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to live."
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