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

Zora Neale Hurston was born in

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

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CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.K.6

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

• comedy
• irony
• exageration
• metaphor

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"The front porch might seem a daring place for the rest of the town, but it was a gallery seat for me." (paragraph 3) This clause is what type of figurative language

• a simile

• an extended metaphor

• an irony

• a comical phrase

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.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

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

• self-confident
• curious
• fearless
• all of the answers

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CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

Zora says slavery is in the past, and now she has a chance for victory, "the world to be won." This statement is an example of _______________ of paragraph 7.

• a long simile

• an extended metaphor

• a summary

• a personification

"No brown specter pulls out a chair beside me..." The word 'specter' in paragraph 8 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 in paragraph 1 means

• putting off

• lessening the severity of

• increasing the amount

Plunges, constrict, splits, rears, attacks, rendering, clawing, breakthrough - all these words in paragraph 11 show

• the transformative power of jazz music

• Zora's feelings when she was in Harlem

• what Zora felt when she went to Jaksonville

It loses no time in circumlocutions, but gets right down into business. Circumlocutions in paragraph 11 means:

• a false expression

• going straight to the point

• roundabout expressions that serve to avoid the main point