Who Said It?
Figurative Language
Who Is....
Key Ideas and Details
What Happened?
100
"Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it's some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don't know nothin' but what we see…woman is de mule uh de world so fur as Ah can see."
Who is Nanny?
100
The blossoming pear tree.
What is metaphor?
100
This man offers to help Janie after Joe's death.
Who is Ike Green?
100
The formal narrator who sets the stage and comments on the porch sitters in Chapter 1 and who tells the reader of Janie’s thoughts and Nanny’s struggles in Chapter 2.
What is the third person omniscient narrator?
100
What does Janie want Joe to do before he dies?
What is Janie wants him to listen to what she has to say.
200
"Thank yuh fuh yo' compliments, but mah wife don't know nothin' 'bout no speech-makin'. Ah never married her for nothin' lak dat. She's uh woman and her place is in de home."
Who is Joe Starks?
200
"...the great rope of black hair swinging to her waist and unraveling in the wind like a plume…”
What is simile?
200
He becomes more like Joe by smoking cigars and saying phrases that Joe used to say.
Who is Hezekiah?
200
She throws away her apron. Janie looks forward to leaving with Joe. She experiences a “feeling of sudden newness and change,” as reflected in the optimism of the Harlem Renaissance.
What is the symbolic act Janie performs before leaving Logan?
200
What does Janie do during the evenings?
What is she lets Hezekiah tend the store during the evenings while she sits on the porch.
300
"Nature is de first of everything. Ever since self was self, nature been keepin' folks off of red-hot stoves. Dat caution you talkin' 'bout ain't nothin' but uh humbug."
Who is Sam Watson?
300
“Ships at a distance have every man’s wish aboard.”
What is a metaphor?
300
Who starts to tease Joe after Janie’s reply?
Who is Walter and Lige Moss?
300
He tells her how to dress (“She must look on herself as the bell-cow…”; “Whut make her keep her head tied up lak some ole ‘oman round de store?”). He will not allow Janie to speak on the porch (“mah wife don’t know nothin’ ‘bout no speech-makin’”). He criticizes her (“He gits on her ever now and then when she make little mistakes round de store.”).
What are the ways Joe "enslaves" Janie?
300
How long does Janie wear black?
What is six months?
400
"Sometimes God gits familiar wid us womenfolks too and talks His inside business. He told me how surprised He was 'bout y'all turning out so smart after Him makin' yuh different; and how surprised y'all is goin' tuh be if you ever find out you don't know half as much bout us as you think you do."
Who is Janie Crawford?
400
Death is “that strange being with the huge square toes who lived way in the West. The great one who lived in the straight house like a platform without sides to it, and without a roof.”
What is personification?
400
She advises Janie to do ignore the rumor that she is poisoning her husband.
Who is Pheoby?
400
? “The years took the fight out of Janie’s face.” Beginning with Chapter 7, Janie has learned to “say nothing.” She sometimes dreams of the future, but settles into a controlled presence around Joe. At the end of Chapter 6, Janie had dared to speak up and give her opinion to the porch sitters’ conversation.
What is Janie's view on marriage
400
According to Janie, what has Joe “mixed up”?
What is Joe has confused what Janie did with what Janie looks like.
500
"You thinks youse white folks by the way you act."
Who is Logan Killicks?
500
”Every morning the world flung itself over and exposed the town to the sun.”
What is personification?
500
He suggested that the town [Eatonville] incorporate and elect a mayor.
Who is Joe Starks?
500
“She begins peacefully” and “She is proud.”
What is how Hurston’s beliefs in the power of the individual reflected in Janie’s character?
500
What song does the Elks band play during Joe’s funeral?
What is “Safe in the Arms of Jesus.”
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