Their Eyes Were Watching God: 5 Literary Techniques

-Pg 26
-Symbol
-“If you can stand not to chop and tote wood Ah reckon you can stand not to git no dinner.”
-Just like the quote right before this, it represents how hard headed and stiff the both of them are. How neither Janie or Killicks would agree and cooperate with one another.

-Pg 27
-Imagery
-“Logan held his wad of tobacco real still in his jaw like a thermometer of his feelings while he studied Janie’s face and waited for her to say something.”
-This device was used to express how Logan was like holding a thermometer, not knowing whether the outcome would be good or bad. But also he is expecting a response from Janie while he’s observing her face.

-Pg 29
-Simile
-“Janie, if you think Ah aims to tole you off and make a dog outa you, youse wrong. Ah wants to make a wife outa you.”
-Janie is being compared to an animal, because the author is trying to show that Janie is not wanted to be taken away and be treated horrible as if she was a dog. But she is wanted to become the wife of Joe Crawford

-Pg 31
-Hyperbole
-“The sun from ambush was threatening the world with red daggers”
-He is explaining how hot it was outside yet, Zora Neake Hurston use this device to make the setting and the situation more dramatic. From the use of it, it lets us feel and imagine how he felt in that intense heat.

-Pg 32
-Metaphor
-“The morning air was like a new dress.”
-A dress is silky smooth and soft, so in this scene this device is used to show the texture, and the image of the soft wind.