To Kill A Mockingbird Review

What is a synonym for the word ASSUAGED as it is used in the following sentence: "When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow. When it healed, and Jem’s fears of never being able to play football were assuaged, he was seldom self-conscious about his injury."

The Latin root MAL, as used in the vocabulary word malevolent, most nearly means the same as which word below? "Inside the house lived a malevolent phantom."

Which word below represents an antonym for the word ASININE as used in the following sentence: " Lastly, we were to stay away from that house until we were invited there, we were not to play an asinine game he had seen us playing or make fun of anybody on this street or in this town."

Which word represents a synonym for the word ANALOGOUS as it is used in the sentence that follows: "Had I ever harbored the mystical notions about mountains that seem to obsess lawyers and judges, Aunt Alexandra would have been analogous to Mount Everest: throughout my early life, she was cold and there."

Take a look at the verb ARTICULATE as used in the sentence that follows. Which verb choice represents the best synonym for articulate: "Suddenly Mayella became articulate. 'I got somethin‘ to say,' she said."

Atticus incorporates which literary device in this portion of his speech: “But there is one way in this country in which all men are created equal—there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president"?

A scapegoat is a character we find in many stories. In To Kill A Mockingbird, Tom Robinson is a scapegoat for many of the struggles Maycomb is having understanding race and class. As a scapegoat, Tom Robinson's character might also be considered

As a small community, Maycomb represents many of the struggles that the South felt around race, class, and gender during the 1930s. As such, Maycomb should be seen as a

Which of the following characteristics is NOT an example of an element found in a Southern Gothic novel?

The German term which means "spirit of the time."

Zeebo tells Scout and Jem, "Don’t pay no ‘tention to Lula, she’s contentious because Reverend Sykes threatened to church her. " Which choice most nearly means the same as contentious?

Dill is described as having an infallible sense of direction: "He traveled with the show all over Mississippi until his infallible sense of direction told him he was in Abbott County, Alabama, just across the river from Maycomb." Which choice represents an antonym for the word "infallible"?

Scout describes some lawyers being acrimonious: "We could tell, however, when debate became more acrimonious than professional, but this was from watching lawyers other than our father. " Which choice represents a synonym for acrimonious?

Scout overhears her aunt and the ladies of Maycomb gossiping: "From the kitchen, I heard Mrs. Grace Merriweather giving a report in the livingroom on the squalid lives of the Mrunas, it sounded like to me." Which choice represents the best synonym for squalid?

Scout describes Boo's hands: "They were white hands, sickly white hands that had never seen the sun, so white they stood out garishly against the dull cream wall in the dim light of Jem’s room." Which choice represents the best definition for garishly?