What literary device is portrayed by the following example: "feels jus’ lak underneath uh dove’s wing next to mah face"?
What is a simile
100
What is the meaning of the following quote: "Janie starched and ironed her face and came set in the funeral behind her veil"?
What is Jane is preparing herself for Jody's funeral with the impassive, dignified, "proper" facial expression expected from her
100
When and where was Zora Neale Hurston born?
What is 1891 in Alabama?
100
Who is Joe Starks?
Who is Jody
(The man who convinced Janie to leave her first husband, Janie's 2nd husband, the Mayor of Eatonville)
100
What age was Janie when she was first married?
What is 16 years old
200
What literary device names the format that this book is written in?
What is a frame story
200
What is the translation in your own words of "most of these zigaboos is so het up over yo' business..." and what does it mean?
What is "most of these zigaboos are so heated up over your business." This means that the gossipers are very concerned with the goings-on of her life.
200
What was her field of study?
What is Anthropology?
200
Who is Janie's best friend?
Who is Phoeby
200
Who is the first person Janie Kisses?
Who is Johnny Taylor
300
What literary device does the death of the mule suggest (we discussed this on Tuesday)?
What is foreshadowing
300
What is the translation of the following: "If Ah kin haul de wood heah and chop it fuh yuh, look lak you oughta be able tuh tote it inside."
What is "If I can haul the wood here and chop it for you, looks like you ought to be able to tote it inside."
300
What did Zora Neale Hurtston do while working along side with Franz Boas?
What is she collected stories, songs, and tales
300
Who was the owner of the mule before Jody bought him?
Who is Matt Bonner
300
What is the point of Janie's life at which her nanny says she has become a women?
What is the day she finds her kissing Johnny Taylor over the gate
400
What point of view is the story being told from when we read Janie’s thoughts and her perspective on things?
What is Third Person point-of-view
400
What is the translation of thee following quote: "Aw 'tain't no sich a varmit nowhere dat kin eat no house! Dat's uh lie. Ah wuz dere yiste'ddy and Ah ain't seen nothin' lak dat."
What is "Aw there isn't any such a varmit anywhere that can eat a house! That's a lie. I was there yesterday and I didn't see anything like that."
400
When was the book published?
What is 1937
400
Who is the man who Janie and Tea Cake leave in the tall house during the hurricane?
Who is Motor Boat
400
Who is living through Janie?
Who is her nanny
500
What literary device is displayed when Janie understands what the trees and the wind are saying?
What is personification
500
What is the translation of the following quote: "Sling me up uh plate uh dat stew beef wid some coffee too, please ma'am. Sterrett is jus' ez drunk ez Ah is; and if he kin eat standin' up, Ah kin do the same."
What is "Sling me up a plate of that stew beef with some coffee too, please ma'am. Sterrett is just as drunk as I am; and if he can eat standing up, I can do the same."
500
Who pretended to be an African Princess to stay at an all white hotel?
Who is Zora Nerale Hurston?
500
Who are 3 of Tea Cake's friends on the Muck?
Who is Motor Boat, Stew Beef, Sop-de-Bottom, Coodemay, Ed Dockery, Bootyny, Sterrett, or Lias
500
What is the color that Tea Cake likes Janie to wear?