To Kill a Mockingbird Passages Terms Poems
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Boo Radley
This character is feared by all of the children in town
100
Boo Radley
“Inside the house lived a malevolent phantom. People said he existed, but Jem and I had never seen him. People said he went out at night when the moon was down, and peeped in windows. When people’s azaleas froze in a cold snap, it was because he had breathed on them. Any stealthy small crimes committed in Maycomb were his work.”

Who is being discussed in the above quote?
100
Foreshadowing
This is when the writer gives a hint about what may happen later in the story
100
Ozymandias
This poem describes a King who is long forgotten
200
Calpurnia
This character is the housekeeper for the Finch Family
200
Maycomb
“…it was a tired town when I first knew it. In rainy weather the streets turned to red slop: grass grew on the sidewalks, the courthouse sagged in the square. Somehow, it was hotter then: a black dog suffered on a summer’s day; bony mules hitched to Hoover carts flicked flies in the sweltering shade of the live oaks on the square.”

What place is being described in the above passage?
200
The Great Depression
This event causes much of the poverty that we see in To Kill a Mockingbird
200
There Will Come Soft Rains
This poem describes beautiful scenery in the context of war
300
The Civil Rights Movement
What major social movement did "To Kill a Mockingbird influence?
300
Gender Roles
“They spent days together in the treehouse plotting and planning, calling me only when they needed a third party. But I kept aloof from their more foolhardy schemes for a while, and on pain of being called a girl, I spent most of the remaining twilights that summer sitting with Miss Maudie Atkinson on her front porch.”

Which theme of To Kill a Mockingbird is shown here?
300
Gender Roles
This term describes expectations for how men and women should behave in society
300
Let America Be America Again
This poem describes a failed vision of a great country
400
The Ewells
This family is known as the disgrace of the town.
400
Let America Be America Again
"Whose sweat and blood, whose faith and pain,
Whose hand at the foundry, whose plow in the rain,
Must bring back our mighty dream again.”

What poem is this quote from?
400
Superstition
This term describes strange beliefs about good/bad luck which are often based in religion
400
Sonnet 18
This poem describes a loved one
500
Alabama
Which US state is the story set in?
500
Calpurnia
“’There’s some folks who don’t eat like us,” she whispered fiercely, “but you ain’t called on to contradict ‘em at the table when they don’t. That boy’s yo comp’ny and if he wants to eat up the table cloth you let him, you hear?... Yo’ folks might be better’n the Cunningham’s but it don’t count for nothin’ the way you’re disgracin’ ‘em’”

Which character is speaking in this passage?
500
Races/Black people and White people
Jim Crow laws enforced segregation of ________________
500
Ozymandias
“Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read”

What poem is this from?






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