Quotes TEWWG
“Ah didn’t want to be used for a work-ox and a brood-sow…Ah wanted to preach a great sermon about colored women sittin’ on high, but they wasn’t no pulpit for me.”
Who is Nanny?
The Mother
Who is the speaker in "Mother To Son"?
Maybe it just sags like a heavy load
What is a simile?
Symbolizes Janie's hope for romance
What is the pear tree?
one-lined stanza
What is the monostich?
“Thank yuh fuh yo’ compliments, but mah wife don’t know nothin’ ‘bout no speech-makin’.”
Who is Joe Starks?
Edgar Allen Poe
Who is the speaker in "Annabel Lee"?
Life for me ain't been no crystal stair
What is a metaphor?
Acts a symbol of independence
What are Janie's overalls?
two rhymed lines
What is a couplet?
“Ah jus’ couldn’t see mahself married to no black man. It’s too many black folks already. We oughta lighten up de race.” 140
Who is Mrs. Turner?
Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson
Who is the speaker in "Sonnet"?
demons down
What is alliteration?
Acts as a symbol for Janie's relationship with Logan
What is the apron?
three lined stanza
What is a tercet?
“Ah done growed ten feet higher from jus’ listenin’ tuh you.”
Who is Phoeby?
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Who is the speaker in "Sympathy"?
"What happens to a dream deferred?" is a reference to Proverbs 13:12
What is an allusion?
Acts as a symbol for new phases
What is the gate?
8 lined stanza
What is an octave?
“Pheoby, you got tuh go there tuh know there. Yo’ papa and yo’ mama and nobody else can’t tell yuh and show yuh. Two things everybody’s got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin’ fuh theyselves.”
Who is Janie?
Maya Angelou
Who is the speaker in "Caged bird"?
the wind came out of the cloud by night...killing my Annabel Lee
What is personification?
Acts as symbol for oppression
What is the head rag?
Is made up of 3 quatrains and a couplet
What is a Shakespearean sonnet?