To Kill A Mockingbird Figurative Language Essay
Vocabulary:
Piety
The quality of being religious or reverent.
Everyone during this time was very religious
Pg. 4
Strictures
A restriction on a person or activity.
The restriction on people’s everyday actions
Pg. 4
Impotent
Unable to take effective action; helpless or powerless.
The people were helpless to their situations
Pg. 4
Taciturn
(Of a person) Reserved or uncommunicative in speech; saying little.
The people had little to say in their situations so many people were very taciturn
Pg. 5
Ambled
Walk or move at a slow, relaxed pace.
They couldn't do much so they just sat and wondered slowly waiting for the government to do something
Pg. 6
Tyrannical
Exercising power in a cruel or arbitrary way.
The blacks of this time were doing more for their freedom than everyone else in the country for their rightful jobs
Pg. 7
Eccentric
(Of a person or their …show more content…
Though no one was a native to the down the teacher was suddenly different because of what side of the state she was raised in
Pg. 21
Figurative Language:
Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it.
The author is describing the small town of Maycomb (in Scout’s perspective) as a tired old town, which justifies that back in the previous years the town had more life/excitement roaming through the streets. Now the town has been worn down to what it is today, this could be because of the Reconstruction Era after WWII which was during the Great Depression.
Pg. 6
“But what in the Sam holy hill did you wait till tonight?”
The expression Sam Hill was used as a replacement for “hell” back in the early 1900s. Southerners would oftenly use this term to describe their agitation/grief without having to use open profanity near their children. This led to the children themselves speaking this phrase in their sentences with and without them knowing what it actually meant.
Pg. 69
Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I’d have the
Piety
The quality of being religious or reverent.
Everyone during this time was very religious
Pg. 4
Strictures
A restriction on a person or activity.
The restriction on people’s everyday actions
Pg. 4
Impotent
Unable to take effective action; helpless or powerless.
The people were helpless to their situations
Pg. 4
Taciturn
(Of a person) Reserved or uncommunicative in speech; saying little.
The people had little to say in their situations so many people were very taciturn
Pg. 5
Ambled
Walk or move at a slow, relaxed pace.
They couldn't do much so they just sat and wondered slowly waiting for the government to do something
Pg. 6
Tyrannical
Exercising power in a cruel or arbitrary way.
The blacks of this time were doing more for their freedom than everyone else in the country for their rightful jobs
Pg. 7
Eccentric
(Of a person or their …show more content…
Though no one was a native to the down the teacher was suddenly different because of what side of the state she was raised in
Pg. 21
Figurative Language:
Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it.
The author is describing the small town of Maycomb (in Scout’s perspective) as a tired old town, which justifies that back in the previous years the town had more life/excitement roaming through the streets. Now the town has been worn down to what it is today, this could be because of the Reconstruction Era after WWII which was during the Great Depression.
Pg. 6
“But what in the Sam holy hill did you wait till tonight?”
The expression Sam Hill was used as a replacement for “hell” back in the early 1900s. Southerners would oftenly use this term to describe their agitation/grief without having to use open profanity near their children. This led to the children themselves speaking this phrase in their sentences with and without them knowing what it actually meant.
Pg. 69
Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I’d have the