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English: Semester Review

Terms in this set (40)

"MOCKINGBIRDS don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us...that's why it's a sin to kill a MOCKINGBIRD."
symbolism
"...and now I realized how many people were in the audience, THE WHOLE WORLD IT SEEMED."
hyperbole, alliteration
"Shoot all the blue jays you want...but remember IT'S A SIN TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD."
metaphor, theme
"A jury never looks at a defendant it has convicted, and when this jury came in, not one of them looked at Tom Robinson."
foreshadowing
Scout frequently says, "What in the sam hill...?" which is a nicer way of saying, "What
the hell?" Which term is evident in her use of the nicer phrase?
euphemism
"Maycomb was an OLD TOWN, BUT IT WAS A TIRED OLD TOWN when I first knew it."
personification, alliteration, repetition, setting
Which point of view is To Kill a Mockingbird written in?
the point of view of Scout Finch (first person)
"You can't really understand a person... until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
theme, metaphor
"...the BALCONY RAN across three walls of the courtroom."
personification
"...the balcony ran across three walls of the courtroom LIKE A SECOND-STORY VERANDA."
simile, alliteration
"Its owner said, "UFF!" and tried to catch my arms but they were tightly pinioned."
onomatopoeia
"In rainy weather the streets turned to RED SLOP..."
symbolism (for the Ewells), diction
"But it was a time of VAGUE OPTIMISM for some of the people."
oxymoron
"...the COURTHOUSE SAGGED in the square."
personification, symbolism
"Maycomb County had recently been told that it had NOTHING TO FEAR BUT FEAR ITSELF."
allusion
"...a black dog suffered on a summer day."
alliteration, symbolism, assonance
"BUT it was a time of vague optimism for some of the people."
rhetorical shift/ change in tone
"There was NO hurry, for there was NOWHERE to go, NOTHING to buy and NO money to buy it with, NOTHING to see..."
repetition, anaphora, alliteration, negative conotation
"--I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand."
theme
"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men.
Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly."

Which literary term best describes the first line of the passage?
metaphor, theme
"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men.
Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly."

Which literary term best describes the ship in the passage?
symbolism; it is a symbol for the fulfillment of dreams
"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men.
Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly."

Which literary term best describes the Watcher in the passage?
analogy; the watcher is the symbol of man watching the ships (dreams) on the horizon
"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men.
Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly."

Which literary term best describes the first sentence of paragraph 2?
repetition, alliteration; it introduces the major feminist focus of the novel and foreshadows the novel's plot
"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men.
Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly."

Why might the word Time be capitalized?
the author capitalized time to personify it
"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men.
Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly."

Which literary term best describes the underlined portions of the passage below?
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"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men.
Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly."

What is the 'dream'?
For women, the dream is the truth, and for men, it is whatever they desire (figuratively, it is the ship)
"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men.
Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly."

Compare the lives of men and women as described in the passage.
women chase their dreams even though they are at a disadvantage while men watch as their dreams drift away. Often, women feel as though they do not have dreams
On the train the next day, Joe didn't make any speeches with rhymes to her, but he bought her the best things the butcher had..."
alliteration
"Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf..."
simile, alliteration
"Put me down easy, Janie, Ah'm a cracked plate."
metaphor (means she has been worn by life and is fragile)
"Janie made her face laugh after a short pause, but it wasn't too easy. She had never thought of making a speech, and didn't know if she cared to make one at all. It must have been the way Joe spoke out without giving her a chance to say anything one way or another that took the bloom off of things."
metaphor, passive voice, assonance
"They plan and they fix and they do, and then some kitchen-dwelling fiend slips a scorchy, soggy, tasteless mess into their pots and pans."
repetition, alliteration, metaphor
"She bathed AND put on a fresh dress AND head kerchief AND went on to the store before Jody had time to send for her."
polysyndeton
"But the stillness was the sleep of swords. So new thoughts had to be thought and new words said. She didn't want to live like that."
alliteration, metaphor
"It was the meanest moment of eternity. A minute before she was just a scared human being fighting for its life. Now she was her sacrificing self with Tea Cake's head in her lap. She had wanted him to live so much and he was dead."
alliteration, assonance
"No hour is every eternity, but it has its right to weep. Janie held his head tightly to her breast and wept and thanked him wordlessly for giving her the chance for loving service."
alliteration, personification, assonance
"She had to hug him tight for soon he would be gone, and she had to tell him for the last time. Then the grief of outer darkness descended."
alliteration
"...Tea Cake, with the sun for a shawl. Of course he wasn't dead. He could never be dead until she herself had finished feeling and thinking. The kiss of his memory made pictures of love and light against the wall. Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see."
alliteration, simile, metaphor
Be able to choose the best way to rewrite sentences, paying attention to passive voice, punctuation, and sentence structure.
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be able to properly format a quote for an essay with information provided.
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