Zora Neale Hurston, excerpt "How It Feels to be Colored Me"

Zora Neale Hurston was born in

• Jacksonville, Florida
• Eatonville, Florida
• Harlem, New York
• New York City

"I remember the very day I became colored." This sentence is an example of

• comedy
• irony
• exageration
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

"...I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother's side was not an Indian chief." This sentence is an example of

• irony

• metaphor

• comedy

• simile

"The front porch might seem a daring place for the rest of the town..." This clause is part of

• a simile
• an extended metaphor
• an irony
• a comical phrase

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

Zora Neale Hurston realized she was a "little colored girl" when...

• she was away from her hometown by the age of 13.

• when she went to NYC to study.

• when she had an encounter with the Northeners.

From her descriptions on how Zora greeted the tourists in Eatonville, Florida we might infer that she was ...

• self-confident

• curious

• fearless

• all of the answers

In paragraph 7, Hurston makes a repetition of the word or words:

• slave, slavery

• struggle

• nothing

• American

Zora says slavery is in the past, and now she has a chance for victory, "the world to be won and nothing to be lost." This answer can be considered ________ . (paragraph

• a long simile

• an extended metaphor

• a summary

• a personification

"No brown specter pulls out a chair beside me..." The word 'specter' means

• ghost
• waiter
• person
• boss

"I am colored but I offer nothing in the extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro...". Extenuating means

• putting off

• lessening the severity of

• increasing the amount