Literary Devices
a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid (e.g., as brave as a lion, crazy like a fox ).
Simile
Which type of punctuation separates items in a list.
Comma
In Chapter 7, Janie publicly does this to Joe, shocking the town.
Insult and Humiliate them
What does Jody first bring to the town?
A light
to have authority over a group or meeting.
Preside
the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
Personification
Collective nouns like “team” or “committee” are treated as this (in American English).
Hint Each or Anyone
Singular
The mule in Eatonville most directly symbolizes this group.
Hint ** Nanie says this group is "the mule of the world"
Black women
The porch in Eatonville symbolizes this social activity.
Porch Talk /Gossiping with townspeople
A vocabulary word that means to destroy or defile a sacred place or object.
Desecrate
a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true.
Paradox
This punctuation is used to set off nonessential information in a sentence.
Commas or Parentheses
Nanny represents this belief about marriage and relationships after slavery.
Why is Janie’s public confrontation with Joe so significant structurally?
Reclaiming Voice/Identity
A vocabulary word that means to do something regularly out of habit.
Proclivity
visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.
Imagery
This type of punctuation is used to separate multiple items which are already separated in groups by commas. Example, a list of cities and states.
Semi colon
This tree represents Janie’s idea of love and harmony.
The Pear Tree
Logan Killicks represents this type of marriage for Janie.
Practical
a hierarchical grouping of people in society based on shared socioeconomic status, including wealth, income, education, and occupation
Social Class
a distinctive feature or dominant idea in an artistic or literary composition. (A Reoccuring SYMBOL in the text)
Motif
The effects of the long dry spell (was, were) deadly for crops and cattle.
were
The novel explores this idea through Janie finding her own voice.
Freedom/Independence
The novel’s opening uses this narrative structure, beginning with Janie’s return before telling her past.
Frame Narrative
Something harmful that begins slowly and secretly, usually without being noticed for a while.
Insidious