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Literary Devices in

Their Eyes Were Watching God


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Motif

A recurring subject,

theme, or idea.


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Important Motifs

Nature Gender roles

Marriage Freedom vs. Confinement Race and Racism

Community


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Common Symbols

Pear Tree

Hurricane Janies Hair The Bee and The Mule


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METAPHOR


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Metaphor

Showing how two things

that are usually not alikeare similar in one

important way.


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Metaphor

"De woman is de mule uhde world so fur as Ah can

see (Ch. 2)


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Metaphor

the inaudible voice of it all came to her.She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into thesanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embraceand the ecstatic shiver of the tree fromroot to tiniest branch creaming in every

blossom and frothing with delight. So thiswas a marriage! She had been summonedto behold a revelation (Ch. 2)


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SIMILE


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Simile

The comparison of two

dissimilar nouns, usuallyusing like or as.


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Simile

Then she saw all of the colored peoplestanding in the back of the courtroom.Packed tight like a case of celery, onlymuch darker than that. (Ch. 19)


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Simile

Sometime that night the winds cameback. Everything in the world had a strongrattle, sharp, and short like Stew Beefvibrating the drum head near the edgewith his fingers. (Ch. 18)


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PERSONIFICATION


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Personification

Giving human qualities to

non-human things


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Personification

It woke up old Okechobee and themonster began to roll in in his bed.

A big burst of thunder and lightning thattrampled over the roof of the house. (Ch.18)


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Personification So Janie began to think of Death. Death, thatstrange being with the huge square toes who

lived way in the West. The great one who livedin the straight house like a platform without sidesto it, and without a roof. What need has Deathfor a cover, and what winds can blow againsthim? He stands in his high house that overlooksthe world. Stands watchful and motionless allday with his sword drawn back, waiting for themessenger to bid him come. Been standingthere before there was a where or a when or a

then. (Ch. 8)


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Allusion

An implied orindirect reference


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Allusion

Yeah, Sam say most of em goes tochurch so theyll be sure to rise inJudgment. Dats de day dat every secretis sposed to be made known. They wantsto be there and hear it all . (Ch. 1)


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Allusion

Janie had robbed him of his illusion of irresistible maleness that all men cherish,which was terrible. The thing that Saulsdaughter had done to David. (Ch. 7)


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Allusion

And when Ah touch de match tuh datlamp-wick let de light penetrate inside ofyuh, and let it shine, let it shine, let itshine. (Ch. 5)


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