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Archive for May 22nd, 2009


Eng I Final Worksheet (5 pts on Final)

 

To Kill a Mockingbird

 

Spends summers with an aunt, who lives next door to the Finch family.

A recluse who never emerges from his home.

A black man who stands accused of rape.

A lawyer and an extremely upright person. 

Works as the Finch family’s cook and housekeeper.

Evil, ignorant man who lives in a shack with his nine motherless children.

Woman who falsely accuses Tom Robinson of rape. 

Starts first grade shortly after the start of the story. 

He is quieter and more reserved than his sister, Jean Louise.

He has an active imagination and is the one who pushes to explore the old house on the block.

Is the narrator of the story.

This character is based on author’s childhood friend, Truman Capote.

He tries to kill the Finch children.

Takes the Finch children to a black church.

Suffers a broken arm and is concerned about playing sports.

What is the name of the town where the fictional story takes place?

He comes to lunch at the Finch house, but Scout is rude to him.

He was a talented marksman who during the story shot a rabid dog in the street.

He leaves gifts inside a hallow tree for the children.

Lead a lynch mob the night before Tom’s trial, but because of Scout’s words he broke it up?

What reason does Mr. Radley give for sealing the tree’s hole with cement?

What was Dill’s real name?

Why did Atticus tell the children not to kill a mockingbird?

Why did the guards kill Tom Robinson?

In which decade was the novel published?

 

 

 

Poetry Terminology – meaning or examples:

 

Sound imitates meaning.

A non-human thing is given human characteristics.

A figure of speech that makes a comparison between unlike things without using like or as.

A figure of speech that makes a comparison between unlike things using like or as.

When a person, place, thing             or idea stands for itself and something else.           

The actual sound that results from a line of poetry.

The use of similar sounds at the beginning or end of a word.

Love is a rose.

The placement of identical or similar sounds at the ends of lines or at predictable locations.

An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.           

A poem consisting of seventeen syllables.

Written in unrhymed iambic pentameter.

A two-line stanza.

If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

A sound, word, phrase or line repeated regularly in a poem.

Language that appeals to the senses (sound, touch, taste, sight, and smell).

A fourteen-line poem with a specific rhyme scheme.

Does not rhyme or have a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.

Unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.

 “Song of Myself” by Walt Whitman is this type of poem.

Consists of three metrical lines of 5,7, and 5 syllables.

It looks like a square.

The use of similar sounds at the beginning of words.

She is as beautiful as a sunrise.

Shakespeare’s version of this type of poem has an abab cdcd efef gg rhyme scheme.