Their Eyes Were Watching God

ID Fig Lit: "A feeling of coldness and fear took hold of her. She felt far away from things and lonely (Hurston 46).

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Allusion

• None of the above

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Meaning: A little war of defense for helpless things was going on inside her. People ought to have some regard for helpless things (Hurston 57).

• Janie liked helping animals.

• Janie valued all life.

• Janie recognized Jody was a good man.

• Janie's statement is a larger symbolic representation of humanity helping those less fortunate, human and animal.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Meaning: "Let 'em say whut dey wants tuh, Phoeby. To my thinkin' mourning ought'n't tuh last no longer'n grief" (Hurston 93).

• Janie thinks people should only wear black mourning clothes for 3 months.

• Janie believes that Phoebe is pressuring her to remain a widow.

• Janie believes that your outside dress should represent your inner feelings and not be ted to societal expectations. Ex: Black when mourning.

• Janie believes people should wear whatever they want depending on how they feel.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Meaning: Tea Cake states, "You'se got de world in uh jug and make out you don't know it. But Ah'm glad tuh be de one tuh tell yuh" (Hurston 104).

• Tea Cake thinks Janie is curvaceous.

• Tea Cake believes that Janie is a queen and should be respected and honored.

• Tea Cake loves sharing his perspective of the world with Janie

• Tea Cake constantly seeks to empower Janie to believe in herself and her own abilities.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Meaning: "She (Annie Tyler) had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.

• Your dreams can destroy you.

• The illusion of love is not the same as the real thing.

• Happiness is an illusion.

• Not everyone achieves a "happily ever after."

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

ID Fig Lit: "He drifted off into sleep and Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. so her soul crawled out from its hiding place (Hurston 128).

• Imagery

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Meaning: "You done hurt mah heart, now you come wid uh lie tuh bruise mah ears! Turn go mah hands! (Hurston 137).

• You've literally wounded me.

• Is it not enough that you figuratively hurt me, but now you're insulting me.

• He boxed her ears.

• She needs a doctor immediately.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

ID Fig Lit: "Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood" (Hurston 145).

• Imagery

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

ID Fig Lit: "Tea Cake, the son of Evening Sun, had to die for loving her" (Hurston 178).

• Epithet

• Allusion

• Dialect

• Foreshadowing

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Meaning: "No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep" (Hurston 184).

• Allow yourself to have an emotional response whenever necessary.

• Everything will eventually pass on.

• Grief may feel like it will last forever, but it will subside.

• Loss stops time.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3