Mister Killicks
Images and Symbols
All Diction All the Time
Eatonville or Bust
Call Me Jody
100
This is the primary reason Janie will benefit from marrying Logan: being financially secure, loving and being loved, or learning the value of hard work.
What is financial security?
100
Under this is where Janie discovers her sexuality (which makes this a symbol of true love and happiness).
What is the pear tree?
100
The study of diction focuses on the analysis of these.
What are words?
100
This is the reason that Eatonville was named after Captain Eaton.
What is the fact that he gave the residents the land on which to build?
100
Before Joe builds anything in Eatonville, he buys this.
What is more land?
200
This is the family history that Nanny is hoping will not repeat for Janie.
What is the repeated rape and abuse of Nanny and Leafy at the hands of white folks?
200
Logan represents nothing - he desecrates the image of the pear tree. Joe, on the other hand, represents this.
What is the horizon?
200
This term refers to the dictionary definition of a word.
What is denotation?
200
This is what Joe does when he hears Janie complain about Matt Bonner's mule being mistreated.
What is Joe buys the mule and sets it free?
200
This promise Joe makes to Janie is fulfilled on the night Janie runs away from Logan.
What is that he will marry her on the day she decides to leave with him?
300
This is Janie's primary concern about marrying Logan.
What is the fact that she doesn't love him?
300
This place is the gathering spot for the residents of Eatonville, representing the community and togetherness they share. Janie resents not being welcome there.
What is the porch of Joe's store?
300
This is the word used to refer to the attitude of the speaker or writer in a piece, which can often be affected by diction.
What is tone?
300
This activity is the main source of entertainment for the residents of Eatonville.
What is gossiping? (Joking or telling stories also acceptable.)
300
When Jody sees another man playing with Janie's hair, he makes Janie do this.
What is tie her hair up from now on?
400
This is the final straw that convinces Janie that Logan sees her as a farm hand rather than a wife.
What is Logan purchasing Janie a mule?
400
This symbol, which Janie believes Nanny used to choke her, represents possibility and opportunity.
What is the horizon?
400
This term refers to the underlying associations and meanings that exist beyond the definition of a word.
What is connotation?
400
This individual is the landlord for almost all the residents of Eatonville.
Who is Joe Starks?
400
Joe hits Janie and kicks her out of the store when she insults his physical appearance and diminishes this.
What is his masculinity?
500
This is how Logan responds on the inside and the outside when Janie asks, "What if I were to leave you?"
What is frightened and hurt on the inside, grumpy and dismissive on the outside?
500
This represents Janie's freedom and independence.
What is Janie's hair (without head rags)?
500
These are examples of diction that suggest a pathetic tone in this passage: "After that night Jody moved his things and slept in a room downstairs. He didn’t really hate Janie, but he wanted her to think so. He had crawled off to lick his wounds. They didn’t talk too much around the store either. Anybody that didn’t know would have thought that things had blown over, it looked so quiet and peaceful around. But the stillness was the sleep of swords. So new thoughts had to be thought and new words said. She didn’t want to live like that. Why must Joe be so mad with her for making him look small when he did it to her all the time? Had been doing it for years. Well, if she must eat out of a long-handled spoon, she must. Jody might get over his mad spell any time at all and begin to act like somebody towards her."
What are "crawled" and "small"?
500
This is what Joe purchases from Sears and Roebuck.
What is a street lamp?
500
Although we're not sure if he believes it, Joe stops eating Janie's food for this reason.
What is because he thinks Janie is poisoning him?
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