their eyes---semester 2 exam

Question 1

FL

she was a wind on the ocean

Answer 1

stated metaphor

Question 2

FL

there are years that ask questions and years that answer

Answer 2

personification

Question 3

FL

nanny’s words made Janie’s kiss across that gatepost seem like a pile of manure

Answer 3

simile

Question 4

FL

the sung was gone, but he had left his footprints on the sky

Answer 4

personification

Question 5

FL

the monstropolous beast had left his bed

Answer 5

implied metaphor

Question 6

FL

janie starched and ironed her face

Answer 6

domestic imagery

Question 7

FL

he was a glance from God

Answer 7

stated metaphor

Question 8

FL

rumor that wingles bird had shadowed over the town

Answer 8

implied metaphor

Question 9

FL

he had crawled off to lick his wounds

Answer 9

implied metaphor

Question 10

FL

she was a rut in the road

Answer 10

stated metaphor

Question 11

FL

a woman can stay round uh store till she gets old as methusalem

Answer 11

simile or religious imagery

Question 12

FL

speaking of winds, he’s the wind and we’se de grass. we bend which ever way he blows

Answer 12

stated metaphor

Question 13

quote

he was always laughing and full of fun

Answer 13

teacake

Question 14

quote

cause ahm hungry mist starks. deed ah is. me and mah chillun is hungry

Answer 14

mrs. robbins

Question 15

ahm a cracked plate

Answer 15

nanny

Question 16

quote

through pollinated air she saw a glorious being coming up the road

Answer 16

johnny taylor

Question 17

quote

coming from the outhouse with a queer loping gait, swinging his head

Answer 17

teacake

Question 18

quote

they were there with their tongues cocked and loaded (where is there?)

Answer 18

courthouse

Question 19

quote

she’s color struck

Answer 19

mrs. turner

Question 20

quote

was the best imitation of joe that his seventeen years could make

Answer 20

hezekiah

Question 21

quote

but you ain’t going off in all dat mess uh commonness

Answer 21

janie

Question 22

quote

he was next to the mayor in prominence, and made better talking

Answer 22

matt bonner’s yellow mule

Question 23

quote

you can feel a switch in his hand when he’s talking to yuh

Answer 23

joe starks

Question 24

mah co-alkin is deep. too much co to it

Answer 24

amos hicks

Question 25

quote

a pretty doll baby like you is made to sit on the front porch and rock and fan yo’self

Answer 25

joe starks

Question 26

look lak she been livin through un hundred years in janurary without one day of spring

Answer 26

plantation mistress

Question 27

he look like some ole skullhead in de grave yard

Answer 27

logan killicks

Question 28

ah wanted you to school out and pick form a higher bush and a sweeter berry

Answer 28

nanny

Question 29

it was a hope that she might fall to their level some day

Answer 29

the porch

Question 30

all she found out was the she was too old a vessel for new wine (she)

Answer 30

annie tyler

Question 31

we oughta lighten up the race

Answer 31

mrs turner

Question 32

Big Massa draw him chair upstairs

Answer 32

God

Question 33

somebody wanted her to play. somebody thought it natural for her to play

Answer 33

teacake

Question 34

she had cast down his empty armor before men and they had laughed, would keep on laughing

Answer 34

joe

Question 35

had taken the biggest thing God had ever made, the horizon, and pinch it into such a little bit of a thing that she could tie it about her neck

Answer 35

nanny

Question 36

had stopped talking in rhymes to her

Answer 36

logan

Question 37

you got me in de go-long

Answer 37

teacake

Question 38

johnny taylor represents

Answer 38

janie’s sexual awakening

Question 39

gate represents

Answer 39

symbolizes janie’s quest

Question 40

sun represents

Answer 40

teacake

Question 41

author’s voice is

Answer 41

poetic, colloquial , noncomplaining

Question 42

him with the square toes is

Answer 42

death

Question 43

who rediscovered hurston’s work

Answer 43

alice walker

Question 44

genre of the novel

Answer 44

harlem reinassaince