Rhetorical Devices
What rhetorical device does Hurston use in the following sentence?
"But in the main, I feel like a brown bag of miscellany propped against a wall."
Simile
Who might the audience be for this piece?
White people
Who did Hurston co-author a play with?
Langston Hughes
What device does Hurston use in the following passage.
"I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept, but through it all, I remain myself. When covered by the waters, I am; and the ebb but reveals me again."
Metaphor
How does Hurston develop ideas through description?
(Which devices)
Anecdotes, detail, imagery
What does the following passage show about the people living in Hurston's town?
"If one of my family happened to come to the front in time to see me, of course negotiations would be rudely broken off."
They were fearful of the white tourists passing through.
What device does Hurston use in the following passage.
"I follow those heathen-- follow them exultingly. I dance wildly inside myself; I yell within, I whoop; I shake my assegai above my head, I hurl it ture to the mark yeeeeooww! I am in the jungle and living in the jungle way. My pulse is throbbing like a war drum. I want to slaughter some-thing-- give pain, give death to what, I do not know.
Loaded language/words AND/OR Onomatopoeia
TRUE OR FALSE: Hurston was born in Alabama and raised in Florida
True
How does the following passage develop Hurston's message.
“I feel like a brown bag of miscellany propped against a wall. Against a wall in company with other bags, white, red and yellow. Pour out the contents, and there is discovered a jumble of small, things priceless and worthless” (17).
A. It doesn’t develop the author’s message
B. It shows how people are empty
C. It develops the message that we are all really the same
D. It develops the message that she feels alone because of her color
E. It develops the message that everyone is a mess inside.
C. It develops the message that we are all really the same
What rhetorical device does Hurston use in the following passage?
"I do not mind at all. I do not belong to the sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a lowdown dirty deal and whose feelings are all hurt about it. Even in the helter-skelter skirmish that is my life, I have seen that the world is to the strong regardless of a little pigmentation more or less. No, I do not weep at the world"
Repetition of "I do not" OR Anaphora
What is Hurston's exigence for "How It Feels to Be Colored Me"
Her studies of her native community in Florida
Within passage 6 of Zora Neale Hurston’s controversial essay “How It Feels to Be Colored Me”, Hurston writes the sentence starting, “I do not belong…” and ending at, “all hurt about it”. What answer best represents the tone that is projected from this sentence to the reader?
“But I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. I do not belong to the sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a lowdown dirty deal and whose feelings are all hurt about it.” (6).
A. Apathetic
B. Proud
C. Melancholy
D. Judgemental
E. Egotistical
D. Judgemental
Which appeal does Hurston use in the following passage?
"If one of my family happened to come to the front in time to see me, of course negotiations would be rudely broken off. But even so, it is clear that I was the first 'welcome-to-our-state' Floridian, and I hope the Miami Chamber of Commerce will please take notice."
Pathos
TRUE OR FALSE: Hurston's purpose in this piece is to inspire people of color to pursue art and literature.
False
What is the main purpose of the repetition of “Zora” in the following passage:
"The colored people gave no dimes. They deplored any joyful tendencies in me, but I was their Zora nevertheless. I belonged to them, to the nearby hotels, to the country– everybody’s Zora. But changes came in the family when I was thirteen, and I was sent to school in Jacksonville. I left Eatonville, the down of the oleanders, as Zora. When I disembarked from the river-boat at Jacksonville, she was no more. It seemed that I had suffered a sea change. I was not Zora of Orange County any more, I was now a little colored girl."
A. To establish credibility by reminding the reader of her experiences.
B. To showcase Hurston’s ideas of identity by contrasting “Zora” with “I”
C. To remind the reader that Zora is the author of this piece.
D. To provide context of the places Hurston has traveled and lived.
E. To establish context regarding Hurston’s age in the scenario
B. To showcase Hurston’s ideas of identity by contrasting “Zora” with “I”