TKM Lit Terms

"Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it." (Chapter 1)

• personification

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• euphemism

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"Calpurnia was something else again. She was all angles and bones; she was nearsighted; she squinted; her hand was wide as a bed slat and twice as hard." (Chapter 1)

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

• euphemism

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

"The Radley place jutted into a sharp curve beyond our house." Chapter 1

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• oxymoron

• malapropism

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"Inside the [Radley] house lived a malevolent phantom." Chapter 1

• metaphor

• similie

• hyperbole

• euphemism

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"Mr. Radley made his final journey past our house." Chapter 1

• euphemism

• malapropism

• oxymoron

• metaphor

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"Molasses buckets appeared from nowhere, and the ceiling danced with metallic light." (Chapter 2)

• euphemism

• simile

• personification

• onomatopoeia

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"Jem gulped down his second glassful and slapped his chest." (Chapter 4)

• allusion

• malapropism

• idiom

• onomatopoeia

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"He sounded fishy to me. No one in Maycomb just went for a walk." (Chapter 6)

• idiom

• metaphor

• malapropism

• oxymoron

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"The only phrase of which I caught was '...erected an absolute morphodite in that yard! Atticus, you'll ever raise 'em!" (chapter 8)

• malapropism

• oxymoron

• idiom

• euphemism

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"On the days he carried the watch, Jem walked on eggs." (chapter 7)

• hyperbole

• allusion

• idiom

• oxymoron

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CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4