1. Exploring & Analyzing Syntax & Diction To Kill a Mockingbird Chap. 12

2. “Overnight, it seemed, Jem had acquired an alien set of values and was trying to impose them on me: several times he went so far as to tell me what to do” (Lee 154). Introductory element Interrupter Compound sentence: with a colon Colloquial and non-colloquial language Documenting a quote

3. “The beginning of the summer boded well: Jem could do as he please; Calpurnia would do until Dill came” (Lee 154). Compound sentence: colon Compound clauses; semi-colon Parallel Structure What’s the difference between the use of a colon and the use of a semi-colon? “With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable” (Lee 154). Parallelism Compound sentence (CP) ;

4. “The Governor was eager to scrape a few barnacles off the ship of state; there were sit-down strikes in Birmingham; bread lines in the cities grew longer; people in the country grew poorer” (Lee 155). Parallelism Compound clauses ; ; ; Exposition – providing snapshot of the greater world – note the use of diction – Metaphor : barnacles off the ship of state – Sit-down strikes of 1930’s and 1960 – People in the country = USA, country people 1960 1930’s Sitting Down. 1936-37. Photograph. Flint Sit-Down Strike Organization. Historicalvoices.org. Web. 10 Oct. 2010.. Ronald Martin, Robert Patterson, and Mark Martin Stage Sit-down Strike after Being Refused Service at a F.W. Woolworth Luncheon Counter in Greensboro, N.C. 1960. Photograph. New York World- Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection. American Memory from the Library of Congress - Home Page. The Library of Congress. Web. 10 Oct. 2010..

5. “Calpurnia’s hands went to our shoulders and we stopped and looked around: standing in the path behind us was a tall Negro woman” (Lee 158). Colon: or Semi-colon? Capital or no capital after the colon? Run-on or not? “I agreed: they did not want us here” (Lee 159). Colon Short Clauses

6. “I Iooked down the street. Enarmored, upright, uncompromising, Aunt Alexandra was sitting in a rocking chair exactly as if she had sat their every day of her life” (Lee 168). Short Sentence Introductory element: series without conjunction – asyndeton -- imagery – Enarmored – in armor – ready for battle – up right – Righteousness, correctness, standing up right – un- compromising = without compromise – Rhythm – sound Main clause Subordinate clause – sentence complex (CX)

7. Assignment Write 10 sentences which use a colon to introduce an explanation or definition or clarification. – Clause: Clause (this clause defines or explains some concept in the first) – Example: Mrs. Dubose is a woman of courage: she beat her addition. 2 pt bonus for TKM sentences!