If you ever read how to kill a mockingbird 1. “one night, in an excessive spurt of high spirits, the boys backed around the square.” (chp 1, p. 11) a. idiom or b. euphemism 2. “but it was a time of vague optimism for some of the people: maycomb county had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself.” (chp 1, p. 6) a. oxymoron or b. allusion 3. “. . there were other ways of making people ghosts.” (chp 1, p. 12) a. simile or b. metaphor 4. “. . jem said they accomplished more than the americans ever did, they invented toilet paper and perpetual embalming.” (chp 7, p. 67) a. malapropism or b. euphemism