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 To Kill A Mockingbird Quotation Analysis Practice

1.  Read the quotation in the left-hand column2.  Answer the questions in the right-hand column in the space provided3.  You will be required to a) share your answers, and b) complete the practice analysis

outlines, with a topic sentence, two points and support for each point, and a concludingsentence c) complete one good copy of a quotation analysis. 

i) What is revealed about character?

ii) Does the reader gain insight into the main plot/conflict of the novel?

iii) Is foreshadowing present? Is irony present (see definition of dramatic irony)? Is a significant mood present? Does recurrent or relevant imagery emerge? Explain.

"Forgot to tell you the other daythat besides playing the Jew'sHarp, Atticus Finch was the

deadest shot in Maycomb Countyin his time." (102)

Speaker:

Person spoken to:

Circumstance:

iv) How does the narrator/speaker(s) help to reveal theme?

v) Write a topic sentence for the quotation (i.e., to introduce your discussion of it)

i) What is revealed about character?

ii) Does the reader gain insight into the main plot/conflict of the novel?

iii) Is foreshadowing present? Is irony present (see definition of dramatic irony)? Is a significant mood present? Does recurrent or relevant imagery emerge? Explain.

iv) How does the narrator/speaker(s) help to reveal theme?

"I said come here, n_____, andbust up this chiffarobe for me; Igotta nickel for you."

Speaker:

Person spoken to:

Circumstance: 

v) Write a topic sentence for the quotation (i.e., to introduce your discussion of it)

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To Kill A Mockingbird Quotation Analysis Practice 

i) What is revealed about character?

ii) Does the reader gain insight into the main plot/conflict of the novel?

iii) Is foreshadowing present? Is irony present (see definition of dramatic irony)? Is a significant mood present? Does recurrent or relevant imagery emerge? Explain.

"...every lawyer gets at least onecase in his lifetime that affectshim personally. This one'smine...Try fighting with your head for a change."

Speaker:

Person spoken to:

Circumstance:

iv) How does the narrator/speaker(s) help to reveal theme?

v) Write a topic sentence for the quotation (i.e., to introduce your discussion of it)

i) What is revealed about character?

ii) Does the reader gain insight into the main plot/conflict of the novel?

iii) Is foreshadowing present? Is irony present (see definition of dramatic irony)? Is a significant mood present? Does recurrent or relevant imagery emerge? Explain.

iv) How does the narrator/speaker(s) help to reveal theme?

"I wanted you to see somethingabout her – I wanted you to seewhat real courage is." 

Speaker:

Person spoken to:

Circumstance: 

v) Write a topic sentence for the quotation (i.e., to introduce your discussion of it)

i) What is revealed about character?

ii) Does the reader gain insight into the main plot/conflict of the novel?

iii) Is foreshadowing present? Is irony present (see definition of dramatic irony)? Is a significant mood present? Does recurrent or relevant imagery emerge? Explain.

iv) How does the narrator/speaker(s) help to reveal theme?

"Only one thing I worried aboutlast night was all the danger andcommotion it caused. Thiswhole neighborhood could havegone up. Mr. Avery'll be in bedfor a week – he's right stove up." 

Speaker:

Person spoken to:

Circumstance: 

v) Write a topic sentence for the quotation (i.e., to introduce your discussion of it)