To Kill A Mockingbird Literary Elements

The underlined part of this quotation is an example of what literary element?

"Calpurinia was something else again. She was all angles and bones; she was nearsighted; she squinted; her hand was white as a bed slot and twice as hard.”

• Idiom

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

The underlined part of this quote is an example of what literary element?

“Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it.”

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Allusion

• Personification

The underlined part of the quotation is an example of what literary element?

 “Thus, we came to know Dill as a pocket Merlin, whose head teemed with eccentric plans, strange longings, and quaint fancies.”

• Irony

• Allusion

• Metaphor

• Simile

The following is an example of ?

“Hush, Scout,” he said.

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

The following underlined section of this quotation is an example of what literary element?

 “We stood watching the street fill with men and cars while fire silently devoured Miss Maudie's house.”

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

 “The air was so cold and clear we heard the courthouse clock clank, rattle, and strain before it struck the hour.”

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

The underlined section of the quote is an example of which literary element?

“Molasses buckets appeared from nowhere, and the ceiling danced with metallic light.”

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Personification

The following quote is an example of which literary element?

“ Jem’s white shirt-tail dipped and bobbed like a small ghost dancing away to escape the coming morning.”

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Alliteration

 

The underlined word is an example of what literary element?

“As if to confirm what we saw, the town fire siren wailed up the scale to a treble pitch and remained there, screaming.”

• Idiom

• Personification

• onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

The following is an example of?

 “Inside the house lived a malevolent phantom.”

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Allusion