Terms: Alliteration, allusion, ambiguity, antagonist, apostrophe, protagonist, assonance, chronology, conflict, connotation, anthropomorphism, denotation, dialect, diction, epiphany, euphemism, foil, hyperbole, imagery, irony, juxtaposition, metaphor, mood, motif, motivation, oxymoron, paradox, parallel structure, personification, point of view, tension, satire, plot, simile, structure, symbol, syntax, theme, tone, universality
1. "The sun was gone, but he had left his footprints in the sky."
2. "That is the life of men" and "Now women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget."
3. Gender Roles in Eyes
4. The pear tree in Eyes
5. "Love is lak de sea"
6. Hurston asserts that women are as responsible as men for their subservient place in American society.
7. "They sat on the boarding house porch and saw the sun plunge into the same crack in the earth from which the night emerged".
8. My son's favorite book involves Olivia, a pig who likes to wear striped pajamas and eat gelato. This is an example of ________________________.
9. The speaker has a bittersweet ___________________ about the effect of American society on black youth in the poem "America".
10. Walt Whitman's poem "O Captain! My Captain!", addressed to a recently dead Abraham Lincoln, is an example of _______________________.
11. The sentence "the river, reflecting the clear blue of the sky, glistened and sparkled as it flowed noiselessly on" creates a peaceful _____________________ for the readers of the novel Pickwick Papers.
12. "Now women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget."
13. "Humph! Y'all let her worry yuh".
14. "She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her". The aforementioned sentence indicates a(n) _______________________ Janie has regarding her marriage.
15. "She had no more blossomy openings dusting pollen over he man, neither any glistening young fruit where the petals used to be". (Metaphor)
16/17. Hurston's choice to begin her chapters with generalized statements about the human condition and then move to specific information about Janie's story affects the 16._________________________ of the novel but not the 17.__________________________ of the plot itself.
18. Exposition, rising action, falling action are all part of a novel or story's ___________________.
19. Janie's desire to find her "pear tree" and Nanny's dreams of social and financial status for Janie create an important ________________ in the novel.
20. Janie and Joe's argument at the store is an example of external ___________________ in the novel.
21. Jumbo shrimp
22. The word "negro" may have a different meaning and effect on different people.
23. The dictionary definition of a word.
24. Tea Cake's fun-loving ways make him Jody's ___________________ because Jody is so obsessed with appearance and social status.
25. "What a pity youth must be wasted on the young" (Shaw).
26. Janie shooting Tea Cake to death after he teaches her how to shoot a gun is an example of _________________.
27. Some feminist scholars argue that though Jody subjugates Janie, the true _________________ of the novel is Nanny because her vision for Janie's future inhibits Janie's growth and self-discovery.
28. The discussion of the white man enjoying Rome and taking Ethiopia in the poem "White Man" creates both a reference and a(n) ____________________.
29. Sentence structure and punctuation
30. Talking about growth and decay, something all humans experience, is a way to create ________________________ in a text.
31. Because he kills Mufasa, Scar is definitely NOT the _________________ of The Lion King.
32. "From the molten-golden notes…" (Poe)
33. Mrs. Manning makes monkeys mutate into glitter ponies.
34. George Orwell's use of humor to criticize society is an example of _________________.
35. "The weight, the length, the glory was there".
36. Power, social status and money all serve as ____________________ for Jody.
37. 3rd person omniscient, for example.
38. "Jody is dead. Mah husband is gone from me."
39. "For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turn his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men."
40. Specific word choice
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