PLOT
CHARACTER
THEME
SYMBOL
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
100
Jody wants to have this in Eatonville.
What is a "big voice"?
100
Janie's grandmother.
Who is Nanny Crawford?
100
Though Janie has a lot to say, she is often this.
What is silent?
100
Janies hair is a symbol of her identity and this.
What is her power?
100
"tellin' bout Sherman taking Atlanta"
What is allusion?
200
Janie and Jody's marriage lasted this long.
What is about 2 decades?
200
She wants to introduce Janie to her brother.
Who is Mrs. Turner?
200
Jody tries to win Janie's heart with this.
What is money and power?
200
At the end of the book Janie says she has acheived harmony much like nature does between these two things.
What is the bee and the pear tree?
200
"us colored folks is like branches without roots"
What is a metaphor?
300
When Tea Cake becomes ill he is convinced that Janie is doing this.
What is cheating on him?
300
Pheoby's husband.
Who is Sam Watson?
300
Tea Cake treats Janie like this. Logan and Jody never saw it.
What is equal?
300
At the end of the book mother nature shows us the destructive fury of nature using this against the humans.
What is a hurricane?
300
"the night time put on flesh and darkness"
What is personification?
400
Janie was put on trial for this.
What is murder?
400
Nanny's employers after she became a free women.
Who are Mr. and Mrs. Washburn?
400
Through her relationship with Tea Cake, Janie found this.
What is fulfillment?
400
This means new beginnings in the book. Janie kisses Jonny Taylor over this. She opens the gate to run away with Joe Starks. Then once more when she runs away with Tea Cake.
What is the gate?
400
"Just like he had been sand-papered down to a long oval mass"
What is a hyperbole
500
The jury was made up of these people.
What is all-white and all-male people?
500
Janie's mother.
Who is Leafy Crawford?
500
In the end Janie ends up alone and feels this.
What is independent and free?
500
After Joe died, Janie burned these to symbolize her freedom form Joe.
What is Janie's head rags?
500
"Love is lak de sea."
What is a simile?