In Cold Blood Study Guide – Flashcards

Holocomb, Kansaa

nonfiction novel

no smoking and no drinking

Mr. Clutter- woke up; ate light breakfast; walked around farm; talked to pheasant hunters; went home; went to 4H meeting; drove Ashida family home; bought life insurance; talked to Mr. Van Vleet on the phone Mrs. Clutter-slept in late like usual; talked to Nancy and Jolene in the kitchen; went back to bed; read a passage from the Bible Nancy- talked on the phone with Mr. Katz and Susan Kidwell; taught Jolene Katz how to make a cherry pie; helped Roxie Lee with her trumpet solo; ran errands; worked on Beverly's bridesmaids dress; rode Babe around the farm; visited with Kenyon and Mr. Helm in the garden; watched TV with Bobby Kenyon-answered phone for Nancy; worked for his father; attended 4H meeting in Garden City; carpentry project in basement; Mr. Helm in garden; watched TV

Mr. Clutter- 48; 5'10"; 154 lbs.; graduated from KSU, agriculture; runs many organizations;is a strict Methodist, but smokes Mrs. Clutter-45; always in bed due to postpartum depression, but people think it is due to one of the disks in her back; collects miniature trinkets; sleeps in and rarely gets out of bed that is in Eveanna's bedroom Nancy- 16; pretty and popular; boyfriend is Bobby Rupp; leader in the 4H community; class president; dark eyes, dark hair; bob cut Kenyon- 15; 6'; lank and strong; has glasses; no interested in girls; into engineering; horse named Skeeter

Dick-good childhood; car accident; married twice; two kids; divorced once Perry- two siblings killed themselves; abusive childhood; army vet; motorcycle accident

Dick- got his car tuned up after work; drove to the diner Perry- was at the diner waiting for Dick; got picked up by Dick in a black cadillac

foot prints led to the opening of it; missing radio; two murderers; no motive

he was the last to see them alive; watched tv till 11 then left

Willie Jay, Perry's cell mate who he had romantic feelings for

attempted several jobs; sentenced to three to five years; worked at the Clutter's farm when he was 19; met Dick in jail; he tells Dick about the layout of the house and the money

Johnny and his grandfather; picked up in Galveston going to Sweetwater to find Johnny's sister, Mrs. Jackson

Dick-denies murders; arrogant Perry-denies murders; is persuaded to tell story about the black man he killed

Perry and Dick wanted a change in venue because they felt the jury would be bias sense it was a religious community; their lawyers did not request it because they felt that they would be against the death penalty

he could only answer yes/no to the questions he was asked; no characteristics of Perry or Dick

the ancient British importation which contends that if the accused knew the nature of his act, and knew it was wrong, then he is mentally competent and responsible for his actions

Perry dislikes Andrews because he is educated and everything Perry wanted to be

method of paragraph or essay development by which a writer explains step by step how something is done or how to do something

a main idea and discusses the subcategories of that topic, comparing and contrasting them with each other

relationship between events or things, where one is the result of the other or others

cohesion, coherence, conciseness

literary element that describes the ways that the author uses words — the author's word choice, sentence structure, figurative language, and sentence arrangement all work together to establish mood, images, and meaning in the text

components in a sentence that are grammatically the same; or similar in their construction, sound, meaning or meter

literal meaning opposite, is a rhetorical device in which two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect

dictates how words from different parts of speech are put together in order to convey a complete thought