Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston is from this area of the United States.
A. NYC
B. Northwest
C. Deep South
D. Midwest
What is the Deep South.
Harlem is a neighborhood in this major US city.
NYC
This book is set in which region of the united states?
A. Northeast
B. Southwest
C. Deep South
D. Midwest
Deep South, y'all. Florida, to be exact.
This book is written in which perspective?
1st person
2nd person
3rd person
3rd person perspective
This word means a particular form of a language specific to a region.
What is dialect.
Besides novels, what is one other genre of literature that Hurston wrote?
Short Stories
Ethnography
Plays
Autobiography
Which of these two writers wrote a bad review of TEWWG that may have ruined Hurston's career?
A) Alain Locke
B) Alice Walker
C) Richard Wright
D) Langston Hughes
C) Richard Wright
Fill in the blank with a name:
"She's way too old for a boy like ___________."
Tea Cake
What literary device is used in this excerpt?
"The sun was gone, but he had left his footprints in the sky."
Personification.
This word refers to the traditional stories, tales, poems, and oral traditions of a group or community.
Name one school that Hurston attended.
Howard
Barnard
Columbia University
Historical event following reconstruction that lead to Black Americans settling in cities all over the northern United States.
What is The Great Migration.
In what decade is this novel set / when was it written?
1930s
“She ain’t even worth talkin’ after,” Lulu Moss drawled through her nose. “She sits high, but she looks low..."
What kind of characterization of Lulu Moss is this?
Indirect Characterization
This word is the study of human societies and cultures and their development.
What is Anthropology
A paper that Hurston wrote caught the attention of a professor of what academic discipline?
Anthropology
Famous Harlem Renaissance poet who wrote Jazz poetry (including "The Weary Blues") and won "best poet" at the Opportunity Awards.
Who is Langston Hughes
What clothing article is Janie wearing that seems to bother the women gossiping about her.
Overalls.
This line of dialogue uses an example of what?
“If God don’t think no mo’ ’bout ’em then Ah do, they’s a lost ball in de high grass.”
Aphorism
or
Colloquialism
Bonus if you can guess what it means.
This word means the scientific description of customs of individuals, peoples, and cultures.
What is Ethnography
Hurston believed that ethnography should record with ________, not with TRANSLATION.
What is ACCURACY
The word "renaissance" means this (looking for literaly translation of word based on Latin and French roots).
What is Rebirth.
By opening the novel with a group of women gossiping about and judging the main character, Janie, Hurston is challenging the reader to what?
Withhold their own judgement about Janie's story.
Name the lit. device being used here:
These sitters had been tongueless, earless, eyeless conveniences all day long. Mules and other brutes had occupied their skins. But now, the sun and the bossman were gone, so the skins felt powerful and human.
Metaphor
This word refers to a particular group of highly educated people who make up the educated class or the intelligentsia. Translates to something like "those acquainted with letters".
What is Literati.