To Kill A Mockingbird Quotation Analysis Practice

1. Read the quotation in the left-hand column

2. Answer the questions in the right-hand column in the space provided
3. 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 concluding
sentence c) complete one good copy of a quotation analysis.
"Forgot to tell you the other day i) What is revealed about character?
that besides playing the Jew's
Harp, Atticus Finch was the
deadest shot in Maycomb County
in his time." (102) ii) Does the reader gain insight into the main plot/conflict of the novel?

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

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 said come here, n_____, and i) What is revealed about character?
bust up this chiffarobe for me; I
gotta nickel for you."

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

Person spoken to: iii) Is foreshadowing present? Is irony present (see definition of
dramatic irony)? Is a significant mood present? Does recurrent or
relevant imagery emerge? Explain.
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)
To Kill A Mockingbird Quotation Analysis Practice
"...every lawyer gets at least one i) What is revealed about character?
case in his lifetime that affects
him personally. This one's ii) Does the reader gain insight into the main plot/conflict of the novel?
mine...Try fighting with your
head for a change."

Speaker:
iii) Is foreshadowing present? Is irony present (see definition of
dramatic irony)? Is a significant mood present? Does recurrent or
relevant imagery emerge? Explain.
Person spoken to:
iv) How does the narrator/speaker(s) help to reveal theme?
Circumstance:

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

discussion of it)

i) What is revealed about character?

"I wanted you to see something
about her – I wanted you to see
what real courage is." ii) Does the reader gain insight into the main plot/conflict of the novel?

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

"Only one thing I worried about

i) What is revealed about character?
last night was all the danger and
commotion it caused. This
whole neighborhood could have
gone up. Mr. Avery'll be in bed
for a week – he's right stove up." ii) Does the reader gain insight into the main plot/conflict of the novel?

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

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)