Their Eyes Were Watching God
The term used to describe the writing style used by Zora Neale Hurston to make her fiction novels/short stories unique.
What is dialect?
A writing strategy that requires you to restate the question, answer the question, cite evidence from the text, and explain how the evidence proves your answer
What is the R.A.C.E. Writing Method?
This is the act of giving human qualities to non-human objects or abstract concepts.
What is personification?
A small dot-shaped punctuation mark that is used at the end of any sentence that is intended to make a statement.
What is a period?
This rhetorical device is used within the Declaration of Independence to emphasize the extent of the colonists' grievances towards the King of England.
What is repetition?
Name a concept that relates to finding a theme of Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God.
What is identity, freedom, community, self-love, etc.
A literary device that uses words or phrases to help the reader/listener understand one thing through its relation to some other thing, action, or image.
What is figurative language?
"As high as the clouds" is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is a simile?
A punctuation symbol placed at the end of a sentence or phrase to indicate a direct question.
What is a question mark?
This phrase in the Declaration explains that people are not bound to a government that violates their basic rights and freedoms.
What is "it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government"?
This is a recurring symbol that represents Janie’s ideal vision of love and beauty, first experienced in her youth.
What is the pear tree?
The process of using symbols (letters of the alphabet, punctuation and spaces) to communicate thoughts and ideas in a readable form.
What is writing?
"the men of the crew are the pawns in a chess game" is an example of this type of figurative .
What is a metaphor?
A sentence that has two or more independent clauses connected by a coordinating conjunction.
What is a compound sentence?
This key phrase in the Declaration asserts that governments are established to protect people's rights, and if a government fails, the people have the right to abolish it.
What is "Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed"?
The type of narration (where Janie reflects on her past experiences while addressing the audience) is an example of this point of view.
What is first person point-of-view/narration?
Any collection of written work considered to be an art form, especially prose, fiction, drama, poetry, and including both print and digital writing.
What is literature?
In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie's pear tree symbolizes this ideal in her life.
What is her idea of love?
A sentence made up of an independent clause and a dependent clause connected to each other with a subordinating conjunction.
What is a complex sentence?
This phrase in the Declaration expresses the core belief that all people are born with inherent rights, which cannot be taken away.
What are inalienable rights?
This technique involves the use of objects, such as Janie’s hair, to represent concepts or ideas.
What is symbolism?
The process of quoting from a text as evidence to prove an argument or statement.
What is citing evidence?
"Give me a hand" is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is metonymy?
A punctuation mark used to used to join words to indicate that they have a combined meaning or that they are linked.
What is a hyphen?
The Declaration emphasizes the importance of these rights as essential for all people, arguing that they are inalienable and cannot be surrendered.
What are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?