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To Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee

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To Kill a Mockingbird

Examples of aesthetic features used in To Kill a Mockingbird include the jailhouse scene when dialogue and description show the sense of tension in the air and evoke tension for the reader. At the...

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Figurative language in the passage includes metaphor and imagery. The passage communicates Scout's sense of loss over Dill not coming to Maycomb for his summer vacation. The tone is one of nostalgia...

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To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee juxtaposes the "outsiders" in Maycomb's society with the accepted "insiders" throughout the community to illustrate and compare their differences. Juxtaposition is a literary technique...

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In chapter nineteen of To Kill A Mockingbird, there are examples of imagery. From the following quote, the reader can clearly see a picture of Tom Robinson's left arm as being made of rubber due to...

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To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee creates tension in the Radleys' house scene in To Kill a Mockingbird through suspenseful descriptions, the children's fear and curiosity, and the mysterious aura surrounding the Radley...

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In Chapter Six of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, the author makes excellent use of imagery, especially in the form of sensory details, to create suspense and foreboding when the Finch children...

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To Kill a Mockingbird

In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee skillfully employs literary devices such as allusions, imagery, parallelism, metonymy, and synecdoche to enrich the narrative. Allusions include references to...

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In the first eleven chapters of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, various literary devices enhance the narrative. Personification describes Maycomb as a "tired old town," and imagery vividly...

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Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird employs various literary devices to enhance its themes and storytelling. In chapters 17-21, Lee uses simile, metaphor, onomatopoeia, alliteration, personification,...

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