Unit 9 Flashcards
In the summers, the Finch children mostly ___.
dramaticize stories
Chapters 1–7 of To Kill a Mockingbird deal mainly with ___.
children wondering about the mysterious Boo Radley
The cultural setting of the book To Kill a Mockingbird is ___.
during the 1930s before the Civil Rights Act
“The Proposal” is about getting into a _____.
marriage
_____ is a dramatic convention whereby one character speaks to the audience to reveal important information that other characters do not know.
an aside
A Russian realist writer and author of “The Proposal” is _____.
Chekhov
Racial segregation is ___.
seperating people of different races or color
An artistic movement forsaking the past and showing experimentation in new art forms is called _____.
modernism
Prejudice is ___.
having an unjust or negative opinion about a group of people
Ideas from other well-known works referred to in a piece of literature are called _____.
allusions
Scout wonders if Boo Radley is ___.
alive
In Shakespeare’s tragedy, Othello, _____ ruins Othello’s marriage.
lago
______ is a dramatic convention whereby a character overhears important information about the plot and informs the audience.
Eavesdropping
Scout’s friend and neighbor mostly concerned about the beauty of her garden was ___.
Miss Maudie
A dramatic convention of a character making a speech expressing inner thoughts but not speaking to other characters on stage is _____.
a soliloquy
