their eyes---semester 2 exam Flashcards
FL
she was a wind on the ocean
stated metaphor
FL
there are years that ask questions and years that answer
personification
FL
nanny’s words made Janie’s kiss across that gatepost seem like a pile of manure
simile
FL
the sung was gone, but he had left his footprints on the sky
personification
FL
the monstropolous beast had left his bed
implied metaphor
FL
janie starched and ironed her face
domestic imagery
FL
he was a glance from God
stated metaphor
FL
rumor that wingles bird had shadowed over the town
implied metaphor
FL
he had crawled off to lick his wounds
implied metaphor
FL
she was a rut in the road
stated metaphor
FL
a woman can stay round uh store till she gets old as methusalem
simile or religious imagery
FL
speaking of winds, he’s the wind and we’se de grass. we bend which ever way he blows
stated metaphor
quote
he was always laughing and full of fun
teacake
quote
cause ahm hungry mist starks. deed ah is. me and mah chillun is hungry
mrs. robbins
ahm a cracked plate
nanny
quote
through pollinated air she saw a glorious being coming up the road
johnny taylor
quote
coming from the outhouse with a queer loping gait, swinging his head
teacake
quote
they were there with their tongues cocked and loaded (where is there?)
courthouse
quote
she’s color struck
mrs. turner
quote
was the best imitation of joe that his seventeen years could make
hezekiah
quote
but you ain’t going off in all dat mess uh commonness
janie
quote
he was next to the mayor in prominence, and made better talking
matt bonner’s yellow mule
quote
you can feel a switch in his hand when he’s talking to yuh
joe starks
mah co-alkin is deep. too much co to it
amos hicks
quote
a pretty doll baby like you is made to sit on the front porch and rock and fan yo’self
joe starks
look lak she been livin through un hundred years in janurary without one day of spring
plantation mistress
he look like some ole skullhead in de grave yard
logan killicks
ah wanted you to school out and pick form a higher bush and a sweeter berry
nanny
it was a hope that she might fall to their level some day
the porch
all she found out was the she was too old a vessel for new wine (she)
annie tyler
we oughta lighten up the race
mrs turner
Big Massa draw him chair upstairs
God
somebody wanted her to play. somebody thought it natural for her to play
teacake
she had cast down his empty armor before men and they had laughed, would keep on laughing
joe
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
nanny
had stopped talking in rhymes to her
logan
you got me in de go-long
teacake
johnny taylor represents
janie’s sexual awakening
gate represents
symbolizes janie’s quest
sun represents
teacake
author’s voice is
poetic, colloquial , noncomplaining
him with the square toes is
death
who rediscovered hurston’s work
alice walker
genre of the novel
harlem reinassaince
