APLANG- Unit 3 pt.4

"We could tell, however, when debate became more acrimonious than professional, but this was from watching lawyers other than our father." (Chapter 17, 171-172) Which word best explains what acrimonious means in this sentence?

Angry and Bitter

Boo Radley saves Jem and Scout at the end of the book. Why is this considered situational irony?

Boo is a recluse and would be the last person most would think of saving the children and killing Bob Ewell.

What is Jem's reaction as he discovers the evil of racism during and after the trial?

He loses faith in justice and his view of humanity is damaged.

"The blood in my legs began to flow again, and I raised my head." (Chapter 13) Why is this a hyperbole?

It is an exaggeration because the blood really didn't stop flowing through her legs.

"I can't use my left hand at all. I got it caught in a cotton gin when I was twelve years old. All my muscles were torn loose " (Chapter 18) What is the significance of this statement?

It proves that Tom couldn't have attacked Mayella because the attack was delivered with a left-handed blow

Atticus establishes in Chapter 17 that Mayella was beaten by a left-handed person. Why should this be important to the case?

It should clear Robinson because he has a crippled left hand.

"We only reached shore by faith's decree." (Chapter 12) Which figure of speech is Lee using and why?

Metonymy -Lee uses faith which is associated with God's will.

"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved reading. One doesn't love breathing." (Chapter 2) What does Lee's use of this analogy suggest?

Reading comes as naturally to Scout as breathing

The idea of growth in a moral sense is best seen through -

Scout and Jem

"Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it. In rainy weather the streets turned to red slop . . . [s]omehow it was hotter then . . . bony mules hitched to Hoover carts flicked flies in the sweltering shade of the live oaks on the square. Men's stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. Ladies bathed before noon, after their three-o'clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum. . . . 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. But it was a time of vague optimism for some of the people: Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself." (Chapter 1) What does this quote emphasize about the setting of the novel?

The slow pace, heat, and old-fashioned values of the town

When Scout and Jem go to church with Calpurnia, the church is raising money for -

Tom Robinson and his family

"Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." (Chapter 10) The title of the novel is taken from an old proverb that refers to -

an innocent being struck down without reason

"His curtness stung me. The comb was midway in its journey, and I banged it down. For no reason, I felt myself beginning to cry, but I could not stop. This was not my father. My father never thought these thoughts. My father never spoke so. Aunt Alexandra had put him up to this, somehow. Through my tears I saw Jem standing in a similar pool of isolation, his head cocked to one side." (Chapter 13) What is the overall tone of this paragraph?

confused and wounded

"And so a quiet, respectable, humble Negro who had the unmitigated temerity to 'feel sorry' for a white woman has had to put his word against two white people's." (Chapter 20) Complete the following analogy. temerity is to quiet as _______is to unobtrusive

daring

"Judge Taylor told the reporter to expunge anything he happened to have written down... " (Chapter 19, p. 196) Which of the following synonyms could best replace the word expunge without changing the meaning?

delete

Why does Calpurnia begin to address Jem as Mister?

he is growing up

"The Maycomb jail was the most venerable and hideous of the county's buildings." (Chapter 15, 150) Which word in the sentence is the opposite of the meaning of venerable?

hideous

Atticus Finch best represents -

morality and reason

"And so a quiet, respectable, humble Negro who had the unmitigated temerity to 'feel sorry' for a white woman has had to put his word against two white people's." (Chapter 20) Which appeal does Atticus Finch use primarily in this quote from his closing arguments?

pathos

"I'm not a very good man, sir, but I am the sheriff of Maycomb county. Lived in this town all my life an' I'm goin' on forty-three years old. Know everything that's happened here since before I was born. There's a black boy dead for no reason, and the man responsible for it's dead. Let the dead bury the dead this time, Mr. Finch. Let the dead bury the dead." (Chapter 30) How does the Biblical allusion relate to Sheriff Tate's view?

what goes around comes around