English Final 2006

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scout [jean louise finch]

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atticus' daughter and jem's sister

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jem [jeremy atticus finch]

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atticus' son and scout's brother

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dill [charles baker harris]

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jem and scout's summer friend; imaginative

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atticus

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scout and jem's father; a lawyer; defends tom robinson

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aunt alexandra

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atticus' sister; devoted to the notion of "family" and "propriety"; tries to teach scout how to be a lady

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tom robinson

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black man accused of raping mayella ewell

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boo radley [arthur]

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the finch's neighbor who never leaves his house; leaves presents for the children in a knothole

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nathan radley

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boo's older brother; closes up the knothole so boo can't have a relationship with the choldren

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mayella ewell

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bob ewell's daughter; wrongly accused tom robinson of raping her

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bob ewell

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mayella's father; drunk; tries to kill scout and jem to get atticus for shaming him in court

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burris ewell

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one of the many ewell children; is very mean to miss caroline on the first day of school; only goes to the first day of school and then leaves for the rest of the year

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heck tate

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sheriff of maycomb; witness at the trial that concludes that mayella was beaten on the right side of her face

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mrs. henry lafayette dubose

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elderly cantankerous neighbor of the finches; uses jem to help her fight her morphine addiction

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calpurnia

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the finch's black cook

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miss maudie atkinson

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neighbor of the finch's; shares many of atticus' opinions; the children go to her for advice when they can't ask atticus

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rachel brown

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daughter of reverend brown; a friend of bert; testifies at the trial about some personal conversations with bert

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bertram cates

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science teacher who taught his students evolution

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howard

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a student of bert's; his testimony is used against bert; has a rough grasp of evolution

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rev brown

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preacher of Hillsboro; shows himself to be a little too zealous

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ek hornbeck

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cynical journalist for the Baltimore Herald; portrays bert as a hero; thinks everyone in Hillsboro is small-minded

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matthew harrison brady

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prosecution against bert; fundamentalist christian; lost 3 presedential elections

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henry drummond

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famous lawyer from Chicago; argues for freedom of thought

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maya [margurite johnson]

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narrator; takes a journey from insecurity to maturity

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momma [annie henderson]

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maya's father's mother; owns the store in stamps, arkansas; raises the children; not very emotional; christian

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bailey

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maya's brother

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uncle willie

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momma's son; crippled

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mother dear [vivian baxter]

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maya's mother; gambler; may not always be there for the children, but still loves them

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mrs. bertha flowers

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helps maya speak again after the rape; has a love of literature

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mr. freeman

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vivian's boyfriend; rapes maya

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mr. donleavey

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white man who speaks at maya's 8th grade graduation

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bailey sr.

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maya's father; does not connect with maya

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louise

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maya's childhood friend

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dolores stockland

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bailey sr.'s girlfriend; becomes jealous of maya

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metaphor

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a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money)

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simile

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a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as (as in cheeks like roses)

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allusion

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an implied or indirect reference especially in literature; also : the use of such references

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foreshadowing

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to represent, indicate, or typify beforehand

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personification

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attribution of personal qualities; especially : representation of a thing or abstraction as a person or by the human form

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mood

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a conscious state of mind or predominant emotion

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oxymoron

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a combination of contradictory or incongruous words (as cruel kindness)

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symbol

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omething that stands for or suggests something else by reason of relationship, association, convention, or accidental resemblance; especially : a visible sign of something invisible <the lion is a *** of courage>

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alliteration

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the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (as wild and woolly, threatening throngs)

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tone

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style or manner of expression in speaking or writing <seemed wise to adopt a conciliatory

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hyperbole

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extravagant exaggeration (as "mile-high ice-cream cones")

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allegory

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the expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence; also : an instance (as in a story or painting) of such expression

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paradox

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a statement that is seemingly contradictory or opposed to common sense and yet is perhaps true