Zora Neale Hurston’s Strong Voice

Question 1

Which phrase in this quote is nonacademic English?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

“laugh the ‘Saws’ to scorn”

Question 2

Which of the following best translates the phrase into academic English?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

“ridicule the ‘Saws’”

Question 3

Which phrase in this quote is nonacademic English?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

“to friend with”

Question 4

Which of the following best translates the phrase into academic English?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

“to befriend”

Question 5

Which statement about the narrator is correct?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

The narrator reflects the Southern environment when she uses the phrase "walked on off," an example of nonacademic English.

Question 6

What does Tea Cake's dialect, or use of nonacademic English, reveal about him?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

It establishes that Tea Cake lives in the South and may lack formal education.

Question 7

Which phrase in this quote is nonacademic English? “She did not laugh”✔ “laugh the ‘Saws’ to scorn”“as she had heard the people doing”

Revolt · Accepted Answer

✔ “laugh the ‘Saws’ to scorn”

Question 8

Which statement about the narrator is correct?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

The narrator reflects the Southern environment when she uses the phrase "walked on off," an example of nonacademic English.

Question 9

What does Tea Cake's dialect, or use of nonacademic English, reveal about him?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

It establishes that Tea Cake lives in the South and may lack formal education.

Question 10

Which of the following best translates the phrase into academic English?✔ “ridicule the ‘Saws’”“imitate the ‘Saws’”“entertain the ‘Saws’”

Revolt · Accepted Answer

✔ “ridicule the ‘Saws’”

Zora Neale Hurston’s Strong Voice Answers