What literary devices are found in Chapter 21?

There are several examples of foreshadowing found in Chapter 21 of To Kill a Mockingbird. One comes when Reverend Sykes remarks to Scout that

"I ain't ever seen any jury decide in favor of a colored man over a white man..."

Reverend Sykes will soon be proven correct. Another occurs when Scout watches the jury walk in. She notes that no jury ever looks a convicted man in the eyes,

... and when this jury came in, not one of them looked at Tom Robinson.

A personification occurs when

• "the old courthouse clock suffered its preliminary strain..."

Similes include

• "the courtroom was exactly the same as a cold February morning..."


• "it (the courtroom scene) was like watching Atticus walk into the street, raise a rifle to his shoulder and pull the trigger..."