To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. It was immediately successful, winning the Pulitzer Prize, and has become a classic of modern American literature. The plot and characters are loosely based on the author's observations of her family and neighbors, as well as on an event that occurred near her hometown in 1936, when she was 10 years old.

The novel is renowned for its warmth and humor, despite dealing with the serious issues of rape and racial inequality. The narrator's father, Atticus Finch, has served as a moral hero for many readers and as a model of integrity for lawyers. One critic explains the novel's impact by writing, "In the twentieth century, To Kill a Mockingbird is probably the most widely read book dealing with race in America, and its protagonist, Atticus Finch, the most enduring fictional image of racial heroism."

As a Southern Gothic novel and a Bildungsroman, the primary themes of To Kill a Mockingbird involve racial injustice and the destruction of innocence. Scholars have noted that Lee also addresses issues of class, courage, compassion, and gender roles in the American Deep South. The book is widely taught in schools in the United States with lessons that emphasize tolerance and decry prejudice. Despite its themes, To Kill a Mockingbird has been subject to campaigns for removal from public classrooms, often challenged for its use of racial epithets.

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PPT

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Handout

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Quiz on To Kill a Mockingbird

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Simile

A simile is a figure of speech that directly compares two things through the explicit use of connecting words (such as like, as, so, than, or various verbs such as resemble). Although similes and metaphors are sometimes considered to be interchangeable, similes acknowledge the imperfections and limitations of the comparative relationship to a greater extent than metaphors. 

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Metaphor

A metaphor is a figure of speech that identifies something as being the same as some unrelated thing for rhetorical effect, thus highlighting the similarities between the two. One of the most commonly cited examples of a metaphor in English literature is the "All the world's a stage" monologue from As You Like It:

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances[...]
—William Shakespeare, As You Like It, 2/7

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Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Symbolism with Examples

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Etymology

1. mal- : something bad

1. e.g., malicious (惡意的，懷恨的), malevolent (有惡意的；壞心腸的), malignant (惡性的，致命的)

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2. bene- : something good

2. e.g., beneficial, benevolent

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3. para- : at or to one side of, beside, side by side

3. e.g., parabola, paragraph, parallel

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4. fore- : before, front, superior

4. e.g., forehead, forecastle, forecast, foretell, foreman

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5. ver-/vir- : truth

5. e.g., virtual reality, verify, versification

5. e.g., Has the jury reached your verdict?

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6. dic: to say, to  tell, words

6. e.g., dictator, dictionary, predict

Vocabulary

conscious

adj. noticing that something exists or is happening and realizing that it is important

e.g., Teachers are increasingly conscious of the importance of the Internet.

conscience

n. the ideas and feelings you have that tell you whether something you are doing is right or wrong

e.g., Each person must vote according to his or her own conscience.