Examples Of Similes In Their Eyes Were Watching God

Being perfect is impossible to handle so Bauer uses similes to describe Jill in how she handles her life. To have descriptive images, Bauer used similes to describe Jill when she is working to make readers understand how being perfect is like. When Jill was explaining how her job goes like in a day, she used her memory to tell the readers. The author had used a simile to how Jill acted, “... watching my station like a hawk, keeping the coffee brewing, getting the pancakes

In Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, an assertion is shown through Janie’s actions, as well as the novel's tone and several instances of foreshadowing, that her life is turning over a new leaf and beginning anew now that her husband, Joe Starks, is dead.

Zora Neale Hurston, author of Their Eyes Were Watching God, uses diction in order to depict Janie’s self-possession over her life and hope for her future. While flirting with Janie, Tea Cake convinces her that “Nobody else on earth kin hold uh candle tuh you, baby. You got de keys to de kingdom” (104).

Janie is beginning to realize who she truly is and has been awakened through the scenic vision of the nature around her, presenting her womanhood in front of her eyes.

One often hears the saying, “Don't judge a man until you have walked a mile in their shoes.” The way an author uses similes can help the reader better understand how the character feel and what they're going through like Sylvia Plath in The Bell Jar. Esther Greenwood, a college student, working at a month long job as a guest editor for a fashion magazine feels like an outcast from the rest of the girls; she doesn't seem to fit in. When she arrives back home, she receives several bad news leads her into thinking suicide is the best thing to do. After multiple failed attempts, she is put into a mental hospital where she will gain hope in life and finally discover who she really is. In Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, there are several instances in which the author uses similes to illustrate a more detailed image/description to better portray how the main character felt during her New York job, her suicide attempts, and at her stay at the mental institution.

Using figurative language helps create imagery and enhances the imagination of the readers. The use of personification allows the author to give human like characteristics to non-living things. An example within the story that displayed intense emotion was included this quote,“This set formula, spoken in a kind of lilt, would awaken loud echoes in Tzili’s soul, and their reverberations spread throughout her body” (Appelfeld, p. 275). By adding in this literary device the readers can foreshadow Tzili’s growth throughout the story and how she realizes who she is as an individual and matures into a strong and independent

Tah’jai Graves Mr. Weber Ap Language 26 January 2016 Their eyes were watching God Zora Neale Hurston used elements of folk culture as well as figurative language to create a sense of a community, delineate character, and create atmosphere in her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. She used these tools to her advantage to draw the reader in to believe that they were not just reading the book, but actually experiencing the book as the story progressed, such as if you were in the book with the characters, speaking their dialect. By doing this Hurston created af feel that few stories of capable of doing.

Through the use of symbolic diction, decaying diction, and metaphors, Hurston illustrates Janie’s inner struggle

Figurative language is a main component in showcasing the emotions the characters reveal. An example being when the author writes “ The children huddled up to her and breathed like little calves waiting at the bars in the twilight.” This portrays the children's emotions with more emphasis and really shows how they watched everything Granny Weatherall did with precision. This type of writing really helps the reader understand what is going on within the characters and their actions. The author also displays figurative language in the way she describes how John would be in the situation of them still being together. She describes him as being more of a child, rather than taking a parent role.

Zora Neale Hurston is the author of Their Eyes Were Watching God. It tells the story of a young Janie Crawford who goes through life experiencing several different roller coasters of emotions, three of marriages, and the journey of discovering who she is as a woman. A lot of Janie’s story is told by elaborating on the transcendentalist aspects of her life. Throughout Their Eyes Were Watching God Hurston expresses a lot of transcendentalist views by developing the characters, plot, setting, and figurative language. By doing so Hurston elaborates on the five tenets: Nature is God, God is all around us and inside of us, Intuition/Self Reliance/Idealism, Strive for simplicity, and Live in the moment.

An example of a simile used in the poem is when Angelou says, “Their wives run around like banshees” which she means that she is comparing the wives with the banshees. Comparing these to objects using like or as gives the reader an extra help into understanding the stanza. This helps the reader by giving a little imagery to the brain. It helps by making the person who is reading visualize the line in their

Books by Zora Neale Hurston use a lot of Figurative language and imagery. This is why i think she decides to use that form of text. In the novel “ Their Eyes are Watching God “ By, Zora Neale Hurston, uses figurative language to explain how love isn't always what you think it’s going to be.

(Adichie 16). Utilizing similes adds depth to the text, but can also create ease in

Not only are the similes potentially overlooked, they also create a bigger problem in deterring readers from finding the more interesting themes, such as truth and loyalty, in the novel. If they skim over the similes, they will most likely skim over some of these important, and interesting, themes. His interactions with

An example of similes in the novel is when the writer said; “The Alchemist fell as silent as the desert”. In this simile, the writer is equating the alchemist’s situation with the desert, as to imply the extreme degree of silence. Moreover, the usage of similes in this quote is making the description more