Characters
Figurative Language
Dialect and Voice
Folklore and History
Fun Facts
100
The main character of the novel.
Who is Janie Crawford?
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 simile?
100
Zora Neale Hurston's imitating the dialect in her writing did this for the readers.
What is bring the characters to life by giving them the authentic voice in the South?
100
Most folklores are passed down.
What is oral or oral narrative?
100
Zora Neale Hurston grew up here and the setting of Their Eyes Were Watching God.
What is Eatonville?
200
Janie's second husband and the mayor of Eatonville.
Who is Jody (Joe) Starks?
200
Identify the figure of speech: "Every morning the world flung itself over and exposed the town to the sun."
What is personification?
200
Translate the quote in your own words: "Most of these zigaboos is so het up over yo' business..."
What is (close to or similar to) These gossipers are caught up in what's happening in your life?
200
Stories like Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty.
What is Magic Tale?
200
Actress who plays Janie in movie.
Who is Halle Berry?
300
The owner of the mule in Chapter 6.
Who is Matt Bonner?
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
The point of view of the novel.
What is first-third-first person?
300
A literary and civil rights movement during the 1920s and 1930s.
What is Harlem Renaissance?
300
Pretended to be an African princess to stay in hotels for whites only.
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
400
The woman who likes Janie for her light complexion and wants her to marry her brother.
Who is Mrs. Turner?
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
The irony of the narrator and the black Southern dialect.
What is narrator appears to be eloquent or educated, while characters speak with a broken dialect; Hurston trying to show that blacks can speak both ways?
400
A white eight-year-old boy would not let us leave the theater until all the whites were gone. The time era refers to.
What is Jim Crow?
400
The producer of the movie version of the novel.
Who is Oprah?
500
Tea Cake's friends on the muck (name at least 3).
Who is Motor Boat, Stew Beef, Sop-de-Bottom, Coodemay, Ed Dockery, Bootyny, Sterrett, and 'Lias?
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
Name 3 of the 4 parts when it comes to voice.
What is point of view, tone, word choice, and narrative structure?
500
Give 2 elements of folklore found in the novel.
What is dramatics, storytelling, community gathering, music and song, dance, rites and rituals, practice of medicine, God or Devil, riddles, "tricksters," talking animals, magic, battles between the sexes?
500
The novel was written in 7 weeks here.
What is Haiti?
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