Echoes of the Jazz Age
Tone is not ___ or ___
nostalgic or cynical
Told through dialogue between whom?
A couple
Sonnet that explores the conflict between what?
conflict between a woman’s emotions and society’s expectations
The question ends in what?
Hope
This humorous essay gives women what?
Ten commandments
Recalling the birth of the Jazz Age and its what
Development
Why does Porter use unmarked dialogue?
make the conversations seem more realistic
Starts with the speaker admitting what?
feels strong physical desire for a man
whether she should tell her son that he’s “branded” by racism in America
Hurston critiques social expectations of women, especially the idea that they must do what?
always cater to male egos
Notes how the excess of the Age is reflected in the start of the what?
Depression
What does the overlapping of speech show?
couples speaks to each other yet they don’t understand each other
By the end, the speaker realizes that her passion doesn’t mean what?
That she’s in love
She often wrote about the struggles of what three things
Black identity, motherhood, and racial injustice
Zora Neale Hurston was a major what voice?
Harlem Renaissance
It does not glamorize but it does what?
Retells
What does the story’s argument about the forgotten coffee and rope symbolize?
deeper issues in their marriage
She decides that she doesn’t need to what?
stay with the man
Where was the “S Street Salon” hosted
Washington D.C.
The theme of “The Ten Commandments of Charm” is what
Gender roles, independence, wit, and self-respect
Recalling the birth of the what and it’s what?
Jazz Age and its development
Porter suggests that power in relationships often appears not through open cruelty which makes ‘Rope’ a critique of what?
Communication and general roles
Millay uses the traditional Petrarchan sonnet form to express what
modern ideas about women’s independence and control over their own desires
one must face adversity with ___ and __
Courage and faith
Women should be charming but not?
submissive