Why does Ellison provide the mockingbird’s scientific name (Mimus polyglottos) (para. 4)? How does Ellison manage to make this description of jazz sound so jazzy: "by long-continued successions of notes and phrases, by swoops, bleats, echoes, rapidly repeated bebops — I mean rebopped bebops — . . ." (para. 4)? What is the effect of the dashes in the phrase above?

How does the narrator describe her parents treatment of nnamabia following his various crimes and wrongdoings

In what ways do “the lamb” and “the tyger” represent opposite sides of human existence? a. “the lamb” urges passive control, while “the tyger” glorifies man’s dominance over nature. b. “the lamb” urges meek acceptance, while “the tyger” glorifies nature and power. c. “the lamb” urges childlike faith, while “the tyger” glorifies man’s experience.

Demonstrating understanding of jem's development one way to demonstrate understanding of character and theme is by writing from the perspective of a character. for this assignment, compose a short poem from the perspective of jem. your poem should detail his feelings about either a. his father, atticus or b. mrs. dubose. the poem must accurately trace the progression of jem's attitudes and beliefs, highlighting the important events and shifts in his perspective detailed above. your writing should also sound like jem, using voice and word choice that reflects the voice and word choice found in the novel. the poem can be a free poem (meaning it does not need to rhyme or follow a particular format). it should be a minimum of twenty-lines in length, have a title, and follow conventional rules of spelling, grammar, and punctuation.