Zora Neale Hurston
Literary Movement that she was a part of
What is The Harlem Renaissance?
Protagonist's Full Name (before marriage)
What is Janie Mae Crawford?
Author of the Poem
Who is Maya Angelou?
Author of Poem
What is Georgia Douglas Johnson?
The poem revolves around this character
Who is Joe Starks?
College she graduated from in 1928
What is Barnard College?
Jody"s innovation in a colored town
What is a street lamp?
Figurative Language: "Trade winds soft through the sighing trees.”
What is personification?
Figurative Language: "My wings pressing close to my side."
What is a metaphor?
The Pebble compares itself to this
What is a king?
Year of Birth
What is 1891?
Tea-Cake's symptoms after the hurricane
What is a headache and a fever?
Symbolism: "Caged Bird"
What is to represent the speaker's sense of being trapped as a result of racism and oppression.?
Symbolism: "My wings..."
What is freedom and liberty?
Symbolism: "Slope"
What is status of power?
1938 book about her Caribbean voodoo practices
What is Tell My Horse?
Represents change, potential and freedom
What is The Horizon?
Figurative Language: “The caged bird stands on the grave of dreams.”
What is a metaphor?
Figurative Language: "But I sighted the distant horizon..."
What is allusion?
The pebble is next to this object by the end of the poem
What is the stone?
Name of international historically black sorority she founded
What is Zeta Phi Beta?
Comparison between God's power and nature. Reminds community that humans are first before race, gender, and class.
Figurative Language: “The free bird leaps on the back of the wind and floats downstream till the current ends and dips his wings."
What is imagery?
Literary Movement
What is The Harlem Renaissance?
The country where the poem was created
What is the United States?