what is the meaning of mocking bird?
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just find the dictionary.
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Joseph Heller's "Catch 22" is great. You should also read Harper Lee's "To Kill A Mocking Bird." That is a truly awesome book.
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Long Bow (from which the 'giving the bird' symbolism of sticking 2 fingers up at an enemy is derived - give me 10 points and I'll expand on that in the comments bit for you), balister (a form of large Roman crossbow), short sword, broadsword, halberd and pike.\nLancashire won, and remains the centre of civilisation and Gods own country, Yorkshire being famous for its pudding. UK residents are reminded of this in the mnemonic for the colours of the rainbow; Richard (Red) Of(Orange) York(Yellow) Gave(Green) Battle(Blue) In(Indigo) Vain(Violet).
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From Bookrags  ( http://www.bookrags.com/notes/tkm/SUM.htm ) :\n\nTo Kill a Mockingbird is a coming-of-age story of Scout Finch and her brother, Jem, in 1930's Alabama. Through their neighborhood meanderings and the example of their father, they grow to understand that the world isn't always fair and that prejudice is a very real aspect of their world no matter how subtle it seems.\n\nThe summer when Scout was six and Jem was ten, they met Dill, a little boy who spent the summer with his aunt who lived next door to the Finches. Dill and Jem become obsessed with the idea of making Boo Radley, the neighborhood recluse, come out of his home. They go through plan after plan, but nothing draws him out. However, these brushes with the neighborhood ghost result in a tentative friendship over time and soon the Finch children realize that Boo Radley deserves to live in peace, so they leave him alone.\n\nScout and Jem's God-like father, Atticus, is a respected and upstanding lawyer in small Maycomb County. When he takes on a case that pits innocent, black Tom Robinson against two dishonest white people, Atticus knows that he will lose, but he has to defend the man or he can't live with himself. The case is the biggest thing to hit Maycomb County in years and it turns the whole town against Atticus, or so it seems. Scout and Jem are forced to bear the slurs against their father and watch with shock and disillusionment as their fellow townspeople convict an obviously innocent man because of his race. The only real enemy that Atticus made during the case was Bob Ewell, the trashy white man who accused Tom Robinson of raping his daughter. Despite Ewell's vow to avenge himself against Atticus, Atticus doesn't view Ewell as any real threat.\n\nTom Robinson is sent to a work prison to await another trial, but before Atticus can get him to court again, Tom is shot for trying to escape the prison. It seems that the case is finally over and life returns to normal until Halloween night. On the way home from a pageant, Bob Ewell attacks Jem and Scout in the darkness. After Jem's arm is badly broken, their ghostly neighbor, Boo Radley, rescues Scout and her brother. In order to protect Boo's privacy, the sheriff decides that Bob Ewell fell on his own knife while he was struggling with Jem. Boo Radley returns home never to be seen again.\n\nThrough the events of those two years, Scout learns that no matter their differences or peculiarities, the people of the world and of Maycomb County are all people. No one is lesser or better than anyone else because they're all people. She realizes that once you get to know them, most people are good and kind no matter what they seem like on the outside.
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charactonym:\nA name given to a literary character that is descriptive of a quality or trait of the character; such as, “Long John Silver” for someone who is tall and has silver hair.
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The symbolism in the film is linked nicely to some of its major themes, while at the same time it creates a deep emotional tie between Ichabod and Katrina. Ichabod’s talisman, a two-sided card with a red cardinal on one side and a cage on the other, was given to him by his mother. The cardinal represents his mother, a free and beautiful bird, while the cage represents the evil men who executed her as a witch. When Ichabod comes across a dead cardinal in a witch’s cave, he recognizes it as an omen.
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Wow,I'm studying it for literature this year.Are you?Well,here are some websites:\n\nhttp://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/Belmont_HS/tkm/\nhttp://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/killmockingbird/\nhttp://www.aresearchguide.com/mock.html\n\nThe rest are mentioned in the previous answer.Hope this helps :)
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to + a verb.....\n\nexample....to kill a mockingbird....\nJack and Jill went up the hill....to fetch a pail of water.....
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blimey, there's a bast from the past!\nMolly & Polly Glossop\nhttp://www.pigeonstreet.com/characters.php\n\nOh I see what you did there, that's just mean, can't get the damn song out of my head now!
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I would throw Harper Lee's book at it and hit it square between the eyes.  If I missed, the mocking bird would fly away, perplexed by the fact that someone was throwing literature at it.
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-those socks have holes  =  those hawks have souls \n-falls through the cracks  =  crawls through the facts \n-where's the bird  =  bear's the word \n-butterfly  =  flutter by \n-funny bone  =  bunny phone \n-rattle your cage  =  cattle your rage \n-a headless bird  =  a bedless herd \n-curling my hair  =  hurling my care \n-jelly beans  =  belly jeans \n-hot wheels  =  what heels \n-bye all = eye ball\n\nTHERES 11 SPOONERISMS FOR YOU !!
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Mocs.\nChattanooga, on its official athletics site, makes it clear that its nickname of Mocs does not mean moccasin or mockingbird. The school's nickname was Moccasins until 1996, which was represented by Chief Moccanooga, an exaggerated Cherokee tribesman. The nickname was taken from Moccasin Bend, a sharp bend in the Tennessee River west of the city. During the 1960s and 1970s, a moccasin shoe (known as "The Shoe") was actually used as the school's mascot.\nIn 1996, due in large part to concerns over ethnic sensitivity, the Moccasins name was dropped, and the Mocs nickname adopted. The main athletics logo features the school's mascot, "Scrappy" (an anthropomorphized mockingbird), riding a train (a reference to Chattanooga's history as a major railroad hub and to the song "Chattanooga Choo Choo"). The mascot takes its name from former football coach A.C. "Scrappy" Moore. The Mocs basketball program has also always enjoyed the support of the Moc Maniac, who works the loudspeaker at home games and travels with the team to post-season tournaments.
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I used to think it was a reference to something very common in life, like the birds and the bees are in nature. It was a kind of twisted reference to something so plain and commonplace, in a satirical way. But this question coming up here made me look around. I think the following article gives a plausible explanation.\n\nhttp://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-bir1.htm
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are you talking about a bird or a character in a novel?
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Its a quote from a movie\n\nTommy Boy (1995)\n\nTommy: You better pray to the god of skinny punks that this wind doesn't pick up, cos I'll come over there, and jam an oar up your ass.
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its a metaphor that isnt directly stated\n\ninstead of "the fly is a man"\n\n"the fly man" or "the man fly"\n\nlike “The river of life” doenst directly equate life to river
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First, to find "irony," we need to know what we are looking for.  I went to www.dictionary.com and found several listings for irony.  I think the definitions of "irony," that stick out the most after reading the poem are these:  (1) in literature conveying an attitude opposite of what is discussed; and (2) humorous mockery.  \nHow did the author of the poem create this ingenious irony?  When you read the poem, you are not worried about the impending doom that is discussed.  You are smiling and think its funny because the author is joking about a common human tendency to worry too much.  \nAlso, "irony," is "sardonic," humor or mockery.  I looked up "sardonic," in the dictionary and learned that the poem is sardonic in every sense.  It is bitter about tragedy and doom, and scornful of its own tendency to worry!