Journal #7

Simile: (Pg 118) "The room inside looked like the mouth of an alligator..."

In this sentence fragment the room is described as being like an alligators mouth. This helps create the room to be long and have possible "sharp" contours to it.  This could also describe how Janie feels in the room; trapped, help-less and in danger. In the paragraph before this sentence Janie is freaking out because Tea Cake has been gone for a long time and her money was gone. This could explain why Hurston described the room like she did.

Metaphore: (Pg 93) "They were all so respectful and stiff with her, that she might have been the Empress of Japan"

Here Hurston is describing how the people of Eatonville are treating Janie after Joes death.  Janie feels like she is being treated like an important person, like people are watching what they say or do around her because of her position. This can also be seen as a hyperbole.

Assonance: (Pg 124) "Dem wuzn't no high muckty mucks."

The mu sound is repeated in this sentence.  The sound mu sounds sticky and squishy. The way it sounds can be realted to someone walking in thick mud.  They first enter the mud quickly much like how the mu sound goes by fast. Their foot then comes out of the mud slowly as they try to take another step, which is like the rest of the word after mu.  This assonance creates a slow sticky feeling in the sentence.