vocabulary
Their Eyes Were Watching God
The House on Mango Street
Othello
Literary Terms
100
What is incapable of producing offspring?
barren
100
Who is Janie's oldest friend?
Pheoby Watson
100
What is the name of the author?
Sandra Cisneros
100
What is the name of Iago's wife?
Emilia
100
What is the reference to a literary work?
allusion
200
What is to express something clearly and well?
articulate
200
What is the owner of 60 acres of land.
Logan Killicks
200
What is the meaning of the name "Esperanza"?
Hope
200
What is the name of the jealous Moor?
Othello
200
What is the term for hints to future events?
foreshadowing
300
What is to depart secretly and hide oneself?
abscond
300
What is the setting of the novel?
in Florida in the 1930's
300
What is Esperanza's greatest desire?
a house of their own
300
What is the name of the person who is love-sick of Desdemona?
Roderigo
300
What is the term for giving a non-human object human characteristics?
personification
400
What is the act of departing from the usual course?
aberration
400
What is the author's name?
Zora Neale Hurston
400
What is the name of the city in which the novel is set?
Chicago
400
What is the name of the person who tells of the letters found in Roderigo's pockets?
Lodovico
400
What is a distinct variety of language?
dialect
500
What is the act of making greater in power?
aggrandizement
500
What is the reason Janie objects to marrying Logan Killicks?
She doesn't love him.
500
What is a common way for girls in Esperanza's neighborhood to escape their lives?
getting married
500
What is the name of the person who tells of the letters found in Roderigo's pockets?
Gratiano
500
What is a distinct variety of language?
hyperbole
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