Please provide examples of literary terms used in Harper Lee's writing of To Kill a Mockingbird.

In Harper Lee's To Kill a
Mockingbird, Lee uses a variety of literary devices in her
writing.

In Chapter Six, Scout makes this
oberservation:

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Sometimes when we made a midnight pilgrimage to
the bathroom we would find [Atticus]
reading.

"Midnight
pilgrimage" is a metaphor for taking a walk; specifically, we could probably consider
this a hyperbole as well. It is doubtful that walking to the bathroom was as long or
difficult as a pilgrimage, which took weeks or months to
accomplish.

Another metaphor is: "Summer was everything
good to eat."

The first line of the story is
"foreshadowing:"

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When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got
his arm badly broken at the
elbow.

This sentence refers,
of course, to the attack against the children at the end of the story. This statement
does not take on true significance until the story reaches its climax in Chapter
28.

"Understatement" is used when Scout refers to the Civil
War in Chapter One:

Simon would have regarded with impotent
fury the disturbance between the North and the
South..."

The Civil War, which "left his descendants
stripped of everything but their land" could certainly not be described as a
disturbance, except by a young girl like Scout, who is narrating the
story.

Perhaps one of the most outstanding of the literary
devices used by Harper Lee in the story is her "imagery." One famous passage in Chapter
One is well-known:

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Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old
town when I first knew it...People moved slowly then. They ambled across the square,
shuffled in and out of the stores around it, took their time about everything. A day was
twenty-four hours long, but seemed
longer.

Another example of
Lee's imagery is found in Chapter Three, and is used to describe Burris Ewell when a
cootie (head lice) appears in his hair. Scout
recalls:

He
was the filthiest human I had ever seen. His neck was dark grey, the backs of his hands
were rusty, and his fingernails were black deep into the quick. He peered at Miss
Caroline from a fist-sized clean space on his
face.

The purpose of imagery
is to write so vividly that the reader can visualize the image in his or her mind based
on what the author is describing.

In Chapter 14, Scout uses
a "simile" as she describes Dill when he hears his Aunt Rachel's
voice:

He
shivered like a rabbit.

Dill
is not furry, with long floppy ears, but his response is similar to a rabbit being
hunted: he began to shake. Two dissimilar things sharing similar characteristics is a
simile.

"Onomatopoeia" is found in Chapter 28, as Scout
describes the sound she hears from their pursuer:

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Whoever it was wore thick cotton pants; what I
thought were trees rustling was the soft swish of cotton on cotton, wheek, wheek, with
every step.

There are several
uses of onomatopoeia in this passage. (Remember that onomatopoeia is a word that stands
for the sound it describes, like the "buzz" of a bee.) The words are: rustling, swish
and wheek.