- Find quotations for five different stylistic attributes of Hurston's writing. Craft an insightful analysis for two of the quotations that explains how the style impacts the text.
- Personification - " With kissing bees inging of the beginning of the world! " (pg 11)
- Imagery - " Nanny's head and face looked like the standing roots of some old tree that had been torn away by storm. [...] The cooling palma christi leaves that Janie had bound about her grandma's head with white rag had wilted down and become part and parcel of a woman. Her eyes didn't bore and pierce. " (pg 12)
- Simile - " Did marriage compel love like the sun the day? " (pg 20)
- Motif - " Oh to be a pear tree----any tree in bloom. " (pg 11)
- Allusion - " 'De nigger woman is de mule uh de world so fur as Ah can see.' " (pg 14)
4. " Oh to be a pear tree----any tree in bloom. " (pg 11). This motif of a tree in Hurstons writting creates an image of change, growth; and a symbol of feelings and the change what happens in Janie's life. In this moment in the text, Janie's uses the pear tree to express the love she feels and how it blosom.
5. " 'De nigger woman is de mule uh de world so fur as Ah can see.' " (pg 14). This allusion relates to the effects of slavery as well as women's oppression in the era Hurston have live and learn. But in relevants to the novel, this can foreshadow to the event of the mule and how it gives power to Joe, oppressing Janie.
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