To Kill a Mockingbird Flashcards
Atticus Chapter 3
“You never really understand a person… until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.” (Didactisism)
Miss Maudie Chapter 10
“Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy… they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” (Allusion)
Atticus Chapter 11 (n-gger lover)
“I certainly am. I do my best to love everybody… it’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.” (Didactisism)
Atticus Chapter 11 (guns)
“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. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.” (Didactisism, slang)
Scout Chapter 19
“Tom Robinson was probably the only person who was ever decent to her. But she said he took advantage of her, and when she stood up she looked at him as if he were dirt beneath her feet.” (simile)
Atticus Chapter 24
“I guess Tom was tired of white men’s chances and preferred to take his own.” (idiom)
Jem Chapter 12
“It’s time you start bein’ a girl and acting right!” (diction)
Aunt Alexandra Chapter 23
“Because-he-is-trash, that’s why you can’t play with him” (perjorative)
Calpurnia Chapter 3
“Yo’ folks might be better’n the Cunninghams but it don’t count for nothin’ the way you’re disgracin’ ’em” (colloquial)
Scout Chapter 9
“I could not possibly hope to be a lady if I wore breeches; when I said I could do nothing in a dress, she said I wasn’t supposed to be doing things that required pants” (condesending tone)
Atticus Chapter 13
“you must try to behave like the little lady and gentlemen that you are” (high modality)
