Read the excerpt from Their Eyes Were Watching God.He claimed that she had been shaped up by a cow kicking her from behind. She was an ironing board with things throwed at it.Which phrase from the excerpt is the best example of non-academic English?
Read the excerpt from Their Eyes Were Watching God.Finally she was gone and Janie hurried to her kitchen to put on supper and found Tea Cake sitting in there with his head between his hands.“Tea Cake! Ah didn’t know you wuz home.”“Ah know yuh didn’t. Ah been heah uh long time listenin’ to dat heifer run me down tuh de dawgs uh try tuh tole you off from me.”“So dat whut she wuz up to? Ah didn’t know.”“Course she is. She got some no-count brother she wants yuh tuh hook up wid and take keer of Ah reckon.”“Shucks! If dat’s her notion she’s barkin’ up de wrong tree. Mah hands is full already.”Through Janie’s dialogue in this excerpt, it is reasonable to infer that she is
Read the excerpt from Their Eyes Were Watching God.Tea Cake felt sorry for him without knowing why. So he didn’t blurt out the insults he had intended. But he couldn’t hold in everything. They talked about the prospects for the coming season for a moment, then Tea Cake said, “Yo’ wife don’t seem tuh have nothin’ much tuh do, so she kin visit uh lot. Mine got too much tuh do tuh go visitin’ and too much tuh spend time talkin’ tuh folks dat visit her.”Which best describes Tea Cake’s intent in mentioning Janie and Mrs. Turner to Mr. Turner?
Read the excerpt from Their Eyes Were Watching God, in which Tea Cake is talking about Mrs. Turner.“Thanky Ma’am. Ah hates dat woman lak poison. Keep her from round dis house. Her look lak uh white woman! Wid dat meriny skin and hair jus’ as close tuh her head as ninety-nine is tuh uh hundred! Since she hate black folks so, she don’t need our money in her ol’ eatin’ place. We kin go tuh dat white man’s place and git good treatment. Her and dat whittled-down husband uh hers! And dat son! He’s jus’ uh dirty trick her womb played on her. Ah’m telling her husband tuh keep her home.”What do Tea Cake’s words reveal about his intentions?
Which excerpt from Their Eyes Were Watching God is the best example of regional dialect?
Which sentence from Their Eyes Were Watching God contains an example of dialect?
Read the excerpt from Their Eyes Were Watching God.“Mah wife takes time fuh whatever she wants tuh do. Real strong headed dat way. Yes indeed.” He laughed a high lungless laugh. “De chillun don’t keep her in no mo’ so she visits when she chooses.”Mr. Turner’s words reveal his
Read the excerpt from Their Eyes Were Watching God.Mrs. Turner finally rose to go after being very firm about several other viewpoints of either herself, her son or her brother. She begged Janie to drop in on her anytime, but never once mentioning Tea Cake. Finally she was gone and Janie hurried to her kitchen to put on supper and found Tea Cake sitting in there with his head between his hands.Which best describes the language in this excerpt?
Read the excerpt from Their Eyes Were Watching God.Anyone who looked more white folkish than herself was better than she was in her criteria, therefore it was right that they should be cruel to her at times, just as she was cruel to those more negroid than herself in direct ratio to their negroness. . . . Once having set up her idols and built altars to them it was inevitable that she would worship there. Which aspect of early 20th-century society does Hurston emphasize through the character of Mrs. Turner?
Read the excerpt from Their Eyes Were Watching God.Mrs. Turner finally rose to go after being very firm about several other viewpoints of either herself, her son or her brother. She begged Janie to drop in on her anytime, but never once mentioning Tea Cake. Finally she was gone and Janie hurried to her kitchen to put on supper and found Tea Cake sitting in there with his head between his hands.“Tea Cake! Ah didn’t know you wuz home.”“Ah know yuh didn’t. Ah been heah uh long time listenin’ to dat heifer run me down tuh de dawgs uh try tuh tole you off from me.”How does Hurston convey her own cultural experiences?
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