Figurative Language
Quotes
Plot
Characters
What You Meant By That?
100
Identify the figure of speech: "Nanny's words made Janie's kiss across the gatepost seem like a manure pile after a rain."
What is a simile?
100
"t'ain't no use in getting all mad,Janie, 'cause ah mention you ain't no young galno mo'. Nobody in heah ain't lookin' for no wife outa yuh. old as you is"
What is Joe's reaction toward Janie in the store, in front of the other men.
100
This is the part of the story where Janie is forced tto marry at a young age. Her grandmother insists that she marry this man because she will die soon and Janie will need someone to take care of her.
What is Janie's marraige with Logan
100
This person married young because of her grandmother and left her husband for another man. After her second lover passed away, she finally met her true love.
Who is Janie
100
When Janie asks Logan what he would do if she left him, what she really meant was this.
What is did he love/value/respect/need her? (Multiple right answers are possible.)
200
Identify the figure of speech: "Every morning the world flung itself over and exposed the town to the sun."
What is personification?
200
"Tea Cake hung back defensively. What ah got tuh do wid dat? ah'm uh workin' man wid money in mah pocket. jus' got blowed outa de 'Glades by de storm."
What is Tea Cake's encounter with racism even though he is a black man with money
200
At this point in the story, Janie has run away with this man who she belives to be kind and sweet. She knows of his big dreams and go to an unestablished town.
What is Joe Starks getting a position as Mayor in Eatonville
200
This person is in love with an older woman named Janie, but people never really trusted that he loved her until he slapped her, making Janie seem as if she were his property.
Who is Tea Cake
200
When one of the townfolk says of Joe that, “He got a throne in de seat uh his pants,” what he really means is this.
What is that Joe doesn't need the outward trappings of authority, he was born with it. (Multiple correct versions of this answer are acceptable.)
300
Explain the meaning of the following quote: "Nanny's head and face looked like the standing roots of some old tree that had been torn away by storm.
What is Nanny is growing/looks really old?
300
"Wait till you see de new blue satin Tea Cake done picked out for me tuh stand up wid him in..."
What is Tea Cake's desire to provide for Janie
300
This liberates Janie from a relationship filled with tyranny in which demanded her to be someone she was not.
What is Joe Starks' death?
300
This person has been a friend to Janie throughout the novel and says that she wants Sam to bring her fishing at the end of the novel.
Who is Phoeby?
300
On his deathbed, Janie tells Joe, "Ah run off tuh keep house wid you in uh wonderful way. But you wasn't satisfied wid me de way Ah was." What she meant was this.
What is they could have had a wonderful relationship, but he spent all his time trying to change her instead of accepting her for who she was. (answers may vary somewhat.)
400
Explain the meaning of the following quote: "Janie starched and ironed her face and came set in the funeral behind her veil."
What is Janie preparing herself for Joe's funeral with an impassive, dignified, "proper" facial expression expected of her?
400
"she pulled in her horizon like a great fish net. puled it from around the waist of the world and raped it over her shoulder. so much of life in its meshes! she called in her soul to come and see."
What is Janie's finding of her confidence and strength
400
As a result of this Janie had to almost protect herself from Tea Cake although she really loved him and because of him having this she killed him.
What is Tea Cakes illness?
400
She pretty much forces Janie to get married because she feels that Janie cannot take care of herself after she passes away. She dies soon after Janie marries Logan.
Who is nanny?
400
When Janie reflect that, "Nanny had taken the biggest thing God ever made, the horizon - for no matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you - and pinched it in to such a little bit of a thing that she could tie it about her granddaughter's neck..." what she meant was this.
What is Nanny only saw a very narrow field of possibility, and she wanted Janie to accept that tiny view of the horizon and live in it, even if it hurt her to do so. (Answers may vary)
500
Identify the figure of speech: "Her eyes didn't bore and pierce. They diffused and melted Janie, the room and the world into one comprehension."
What is metaphor or personification?
500
"'What you slip off from me just now for?'...'Tea Cake, ah don't lak you astin' me no sich question. Dat sho how sick you is sho nuff. you'se jealous 'thout me ging you cause."'
What is Tea Cake's ailment and how it affects his relationship with Janie
500
Because Janie killed Tea Cake she had to go through this in which one would say that she was proven innocent only because she was light skinned and the people of the jury were predominantly white.
What is Janie's trial regarding Tea Cakes death?
500
Runs the post office/ store for Janie when she is not around.
Who is Hezekiah?
500
When Janies says to Pheoby, "Let 'em say whut dey wants tuh, Pheoby. To my thinking' mourning oughtn't tuh last no longer'n grief," what she means is this.
What is that you shouldn't pretend to grieve just to please society. (Answers may vary somewhat.)
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