5 Literary Techniques: Their Eyes Were Watching God

The symbol of wood in chapter 4. pg 26. "If you can stand not to chop and tote wood AH reckon you can stand not to git no dinner"
The author use this symbol to repersent Janie character and how she is stiff and unwilling to bend to the reverends will just like wood that is stiff and doesn't bend that easy.

Personifications pg 28 "he meant to git dere whilst de town wuz yet a baby"
The author use this to show a vived image that the town is still young and in the need of someone to teach it how to survive and thrive

Metaphor pg 29 "You ain't got no mo' business wid uh plow than uh hog is got wid uh holiday" Zora Neale Hurston use this metaphor to show how Janie is precived by Joe Stark and that she is seen as a women who isn't ment to do manual labor but to be pampered almost like a white women during the time period the setting is based.

Dynamic pg 32 "Janie hurried out of the front gate and turned south. Even if joe was not there waiting for her, the change was bound to do her good."
This dynamic is the sudden change in Janie's character that she suddenly ignored the advice of her grandmother and wasn't really obedient any more and she decided to think for herself and pursue love.

Simile pg 32 "With him on it, it sat like some high, ruling chair." The author gives us insight into the Character of Joe Stark and the air of authority he carried in his life and that authority is spread over thing around him. That he carries his own authority and it isn't given to him.