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quotation:¨Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when i first knew it¨ (chapter 1, page.5)
response: I vizualize a very depressed place when i think of Maycomb

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" The courthouse sagged in the square."- Personification, they used this to show how hot the days were.

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Quote: "There goes the meanest man ever God blew breath into" (Pg. 12, Chapter 1)
Response: This use of a hyperbole here shows how mean the man is.

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"Our battles were epic and one sided...because Atticus always took her side.
response- I can relate to this because my mom is usaully the one who disciplines and my dad pretty much agrees with my mom but in the story it was not Scout's actual mother. It was a mother figure.

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Quotation: "He liked Maycomb County, he was Maycomb Couty born and bred; he knew his people, they knew him..." (chapter 1 page 5)
Response: I can make a text to self connection becasue I have visted a town in Pennsylvania that was like Maucomb

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Quotation:  "The shutters doors of the Radley were closed on sundays... closed doors meant illness and cold weather only."
Response: The author was telling the reader that the Radley's did not really worship on sundays

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Quotation: "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of veiw--until you climb into his skin and walk around in it"
Response: I feel this way all of the time

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Quotation: "Atticus said Calpurnia had more education than most colored folks." (Chptr. 3, pg. 24)
Entry: The author used comparison to show a difference (relative) in intelligence between Calpurnia and the colored. Does that mean the colored are idiots? No... atleast not all of them anyway. Present day, I know a lot of colored people who's intelligence far out weights that of Calpurnia.

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Quotation: "...the courthouse sagged in the sqaure"
Response: The author uses personification to emphasize how old and tired the town is

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Quotation: "Atticus was related by blood or marriage to nearly every family in town."
Response: The author uses a hyperbole in this quotation because he Atticus most likely is not related to everyone in the town.

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Quotation: "When it healed, and Jem's fears of never being able to play football were assuaged, he was seldom self-conscious about his injury." (chapter 1, pg. 3)
Response: ". . .never being able to play. . .seldom self-conscious," helped me figure out that assuaged means gone or vanish.

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"By the time Mrs.Cat called the drugstore for an order of chocolate malted mice..." (page 15, chapter 1)
Response: The author uses personification to show that the cat was really hungry.

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Quotation- People moved slowly then. They ambled across the square... there was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with.
Entry- This text describes the economical and culture of the people of Maycomb. This helps me understand why people at certaun ways and it also makes me understand why Scout and Gem think that Dill is so different and interesting

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Quotation:  "The old house was the same, droopy and sick..."
Respnse: This is a preposition because a house can't get sick or be droopy.