What literary element suits this quote the best? literary elements to choose from: 1.characterization 2.setting 3.symbolism 4.conflict quote: "slowly but surely i began to see the pattern of atticus’s questions: from questions that mr. gilmer did not deem sufficiently irrelevant or immaterial to object to, atticus was quietly building up before the jury a picture of the ewells’ home life. the jury learned the following things: their relief check was far from enough to feed the family, and there was strong suspicion that papa drank it up anyway—he sometimes went off in the swamp for days and came home sick; the weather was seldom cold enough to require shoes, but when it was, you could make dandy ones from strips of old tires; the family hauled its water in buckets from a spring that ran out at one end of the dump—they kept the surrounding area clear of trash —and it was everybody for himself as far as keeping clean went: if you wanted to wash you hauled your own water; the younger children had perpetual colds and suffered from chronic ground-itch; there was a lady who came around sometimes and asked mayella why she didn’t stay in school—she wrote down the answer; with two members of the family reading and writing, there was no need for the rest of them to learn—papa needed them at home." this quote is from to kill a mockingbird by harper lee.