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To Kill aMockingbird

LiteratureTerms


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POINT OF VIEWDefinition:

Point of view is the perspective

of the speaker or narrator in a

literary work.


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POINT OF VIEWThere are several different kinds of point of view.

Can you name and describe any?

First-person point of view:

The narrator is someone who is present or involved inthe action of the story.

The narrator uses the personal pronoun Ito indicatepersonal involvement.

Second-person point of view:

The narrator speaks to the reader asyou and addressesthe reader directly, as if they were speaking together.


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POINT OF VIEW

Third-person omniscient point of view:

The narrator is separate from the action of the story. The narrator knows all the action including what is

going on in all of the characters minds.

Third-person limited point of view:

The narrator is separate from the action of the story. The narrator is limited to knowledge of only the

perspective of one character.

What point of view is

To Kill a Mockingbird told from?


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POINT OF VIEW

To Kill a Mockingbird is told from a

first-person point of view!

How do we know its told from a first person point of

view?

Use of the pronoun IHow old is the narrator when she tells her story?

Adult looking back on her childhood Kind of get two levels of viewpoint: view of Scout the child and

view of Scout the adult rethinking and providing insight on her

childhood


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POINT OF VIEW

What are the advantages of a first-person narrator?

Closely identify with narrator Feeling that you are there

What are the disadvantages of a first-person

narrator?

The narrator may not know all the sides to the story beingrelated

View / Remembrance of story may have changed over timesince she is now an adult

Young, nave, innocent, inexperienced viewpoint from childmay have been lost or skewed the story


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ALLUSIONDefinition:

An allusion is an indirect reference one that you need to understand

without the author telling you it is

one - in literature or in art toprevious literature, history,

mythology, pop culture/events, or the

Bible.


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ALLUSION

Example:

Imagine that you are at a party with your friends ona Friday night. You have been having such a great

time that your midnight curfew is the farthest thing

from your mind. Glancing at your watch, yourealize in horror that its already 11:45! Mumbling

about your need to get home by midnight, you dashto the door. Your friend calls after you, Whats

wrong? Is your carriage going to turn into a

pumpkin?Through your friends

sarcastic remark,

what is she alluding to?


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ALLUSION

There are 140 Allusions in this famous

song

How many can you remember???

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ALLUSION

So, where are there some allusions in

To Kill a Mockingbird?

Well, theres one right on page 6:

Maycomb County had recently

been told that it had nothing tofear but fear itself.

What is this passage alluding to?


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ALLUSION

What is this passage alluding to?

Its alluding to President Franklin Delano Roosevelts first Inaugural

Address delivered on March 4, 1933.

This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth,

frankly and boldly. Nor need we shrink from honestly facing conditionsin our country today. This great Nation will endure as it has endured,

will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief

that the only thing we have to fear is fear itselfnameless,

unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to

convert retreat into advance.

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PARALLELISMDefinition:

The repeated use of the samegrammatical structure in a sentence or

a series of sentences.

This device tends to really emphasizewhat is being said.


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PARALLELISMExamples:

I came, I saw, I conquered. ~ Plutarch

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some

of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all

the people all the time. ~Abraham Lincoln

Ask not what your country can do for you;

ask what you can do for your country.

~John F. Kennedy

We are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfieduntil justice rolls down like waters and righteousness

like a mighty stream. ~Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

In what positive ways are these sentences affected

by the use of parallel structures?


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PARALLELISM

Where is parallelism used in

To Kill a Mockingbird?

Right on page 6! See if you can find it!!

There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to

go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it

with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of

Maycomb County.

What does the parallel structure emphasize in this

sentence?


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FORESHADOWINGDefinition:

Foreshadowing hints at what is tocome.

It is sometimes noticeable only in

hindsight, but usually it is obviousenough to set the reader wondering.


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FORESHADOWING

There is A LOT of foreshadowing in To Kill a Mockingbird.

Find an example of foreshadowing on each of the following pages:

Page 3

When enough years had gone by to enable us to look back on them, we sometimes discussed the events leading tohis accident.

Page 49

Until it happened I did not realize that Jem was offended by my contradicting him on Hot Steams, and that he

was patiently awaiting an opportunity to reward me.

Page 99

This order, given by me to Cecil Jacobs, was the beginning of a rather thin time for Jem and me.

Why do you think foreshadowing is used?

What does it do for the story?


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IRONY

Definition:

Irony is the incongruity between what

might be expected and what actuallyoccurs or is said.

There are 3 differentkinds of irony . . .

Do you know any of them?


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VERBAL IRONY

Definition:

Verbal irony means what is said is

different from or the opposite of what

is meant.


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VERBAL IRONY

Example:

What is another word for verbal irony?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLc8RIdRzio

Hint: It is one of Holdens FAVORITE things!


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SITUATIONAL IRONY

Definition:

Situational irony is a situation

where the outcome is different

from what is expected to happen.


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SITUATIONAL IRONY

Example:

What situational ironies

are present in the movieShrek?

Shrek Trailer on

Youtube.com


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DRAMATIC IRONY

Definition:

Dramatic irony occurs when themeaning of a situation is understood

by the audience but not by the other

characters in the scene.


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DRAMATIC IRONY

Example: There is a lot of dramatic irony inRomeo and Juliet.

Lets see how good your memory is!

What is the dramatic irony

when Romeo and Juliet aredancing together at theCapulet party? The audience knows that their families are enemies,

but they dont realize that at that point.

What is the dramatic ironyat the end of the play?

Romeo thinks Juliet is really dead, but as theaudience we know she is still really alive.


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IRONYThere is a lot of irony in

To Kill a Mockingbird.

Identify the kind of irony that is being

employed in the following passages from the

novel.

as I read the alphabet a faint line appeared between her [Miss Carolines]eyebrows, and after making me read most ofMy First Reader and the stock-market quotations from The Mobile Register aloud, she discovered that I was

literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste (p. 22).

Jem gave a reasonable description of Boo: Boo was about six-and-a-half feet

tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could

catch, thats why his hands were bloodstained . . . There was a long jagged scarthat ran across his face; what teeth he had were yellow and rotten; his eyespopped, and he drooled most of the time (p. 16).

I asked Dill where his father was: You aint said anything about him. I aintgot one. Is he dead? No Then if hes not dead youve got one, havent you?

Dill blushed and Jem told me to hush . . . (p. 9).


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SYMBOLISM

Definition:

Symbolism is a technique in whicha person, place, thing, or idea

represents not only its literal self

but also something beyond itselfsuch as a quality, attitude, belief or

value.


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SYMBOLISM

What do these symbols represent?


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SYMBOLISM

What is the symbolic meaning of each of

these items in To Kill a Mockingbird?

The Radley trees (p.44)

The snowman (morphodite) (p. 89)

The mad dog Tim Johnson (p. 123)

Mockingbird (p. 119)

Mrs. Dubose (p. 132)

Red geraniums (p. 228)

Boo Radley (all over!)


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