Solely "Ships at a Distance"
alternatives include "boat" and "canoe"
What is diction?
"Nanny's words made Janie's kiss across the gatepost seem like a manure pile after a rain."
What is simile?
Janie's childhood nickname
What is Alphabet?
"The people all saw her come because it was sundown."
What is paradox?
Janie's age when returning to town in overalls
What is over forty?
we hear evidence of this 4x times
What is sibilance?
"...her pugnacious breasts trying to bore holes in her shirt"
What is personification?
Who is Phoeby Watson?
"The sun and the bossman were gone, so the skins felt powerful and human."
What is synecdoche?
Janie's age when she kisses Johnny Taylor
What is sixteen?
has more of this than "distant ships"
What is meter or rhythm?
"Put me down easy, Janie, Ah'm a cracked plate."
Janie's mother
Who is Leafy?
"She sits high but she looks low."
What is antithesis?
age of Janie's mother when she had Janie
What is seventeen?
"They made burning statements with questions, and killing tools out of laughs."
What is oxymoron?
visions of him desecrates the pear tree
Who is Logan Killicks?
"Words walking with out masters; walking altogether like harmony in a song."
What is rhetorical fragment?
number of lashes Nanny avoided by hiding out in a swamp
What is one hundred?
place an apostrophe in front of one of these words and you've got this metaphorical possibility
What is relationships?
"Look lak she been livin' through uh hundred years in January without one day of spring."
What is hyperbole?
Leafy's father
Who is Master Robert?
"The porch couldn't talk for looking."
What is metonymy?
number of months Janie spent in the "big convention of livin'"
What is eighteen?