Here is your Their Eyes Were Watching God "blog task" for the week. For chapters 1-4, find one example from each of the tiers of literary tools:
Tier One - metaphor, simile, onomatopoeia, oxymoron
Tier Two - personification, paradox, hyperbole, allusion
Tier Three - apostrophe, metonymy, pun, or irony (verbal, situational or dramatic)
You can use the Style and Rhetorical Appeals handout to the left for a review. This is due by THIS Sunday at 11 p.m. Remember to indicate the page number for each of your examples, and don't use the same one someone else has used. I look forward to your responses!!!
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Periods 5 & 6
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In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God the author Zora Neale Hurston uses a variety of literary tools.
From Tier she used the example of onomatopoeia by stating "Humph" on Page 3 Par.1 I find this to be an example of an onomatopoeia because it exemplefies a word for a noise.
From Tier 2 she uses hyperbole. On page 2 paragraph 1 because she states" So they chewed up the back parts of their minds and swallowed with relish." I wrote this as a hyperbole because it is an exageration because it is impossible to chew up the back part of your mind.
Lastly In chapter 2 page 9 the author states " Dey all uster call me "Alphabet' cause so many people had done named me different names." here the author uses the literary tool of Metonymy which is subsituting a word for something else.
Niccole Pd 6
In book that we are now reading, the author uses many literary tools.
Tier One: Metaphor "The men noticed her firm buttocks like she had grape fruits in her hip pockets; the great rope of black hair swinging to her waist and unraveling in the wind like a plume." Page 2 paragraph 4 It is a comparison of two totally different things.
Tier Two: Hyperbole "They made burning statements with questions, and killing tools out of laughs."
Page 2 paragraph 1 It is an exaggeration because they can't make kiling tools out of laughter.
Tier Three: Situational Irony "Ah was wid dem white chillun so much till Ah didn't know Ah wuzn't white till Ah was round six years old." Page 8 paragraph 4(last one)
It is ironic how she didn't know she was colored until she looked at the photograph and they pointed her out.
^^^^^^Crystal PERIOD 6 ^^^^^^^^
Tier One: OXYMORON-"She sits high, but she looks low." Pg. 3. This is an oxymoron because it says she is so superior being up so high but looks so bad and looks so low.
Tier Two: PERSONIFICATION-"A mood come alive. Words walking without masters; walking altogether like harmony in a song." Pg. 2.This is because words can't really walk and they've been given human qualities.
Tier Three: METONYMY-"Anyhow mah husband tell me say no first class booger would have me." Pg. 4. This is metonymy because booger is another name for bachelor or another man that would court her.
Jonathan Period 6
Tier One—“The don’t know if life is a mess of corn-meal dumplings, and if love is a bed-quilt!” This is a metaphor because she is comparing life to corn-meal dumplings and love to a bed-quilt without using the words “like” or “as”. (ch. 1, page 6, par. 8)
Tier Two—“…never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time.” The author is using personification because dreams can’t be mocked, especially not by time. (ch. 1, page 1, par.1)
Tier Three—“They passed nations through their mouths.” This is an example of a pun because it has two meanings. (ch.1, page 1, par. 4.)
Mabit Period. 6
In the novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God" Zora Neale Hurston uses a variety of literary devices. "If God don't think no mo' 'bout 'em then ah do, they's a lost ball in de high grass."(8) This quote is an example of a metaphor from tier one comparing the other ladies to a lost ball in high grass. Another literary tool from tier two that I found in the novel was personification. "They scrambled a noisy "good evenin" and left their mouths setting open and their ears full of hope."(2)This quote shows an example of personification due to the emotion the author gives the ear. Finally, from tier three I found an example of a pun. "Ah wanted yuh to school out and pick a higher bush and a sweeter berry."(13)This quote is considered a pun because it has to meanings.
Genesis Fernandez
Period 5
In the novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God", Zora Neale Hurston uses a variety of literary devices to express her ideas. In chapter 2, page 8, she uses a simile that says: "Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone." This simile compares Janie's life to a tree full of leaves containing what she's been through in life. In chapter 2, page 10, she uses personification which says, "....while all around the house, the night put on flesh and blackness." This gives human characteristics to the night because the night cannot put on flesh, for that is what humans have, and the night is not a living thing. Finally, in chapter 2, page 15, an apostrophe is used. It is: "Lawd have mercy! It was a long time on de way but Ah recon it had to come. Oh Jesus! Do Jesus! Ah done de best Ah could." Janie's Nanny is speaking to the Lord who cannot respond to her since he is just a spirit, or something invisible. Those are the literary devices that I found in chapters 1-4 from tiers 1-3.
Esther A.
Period 5
Tier One: METAPHOR- “An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.” This metaphor found on page 5 implies that people rather listen to what they want to hear instead of the truth.
Tier Two: PARADOX- “The dream is the truth.” This quote from page 1 makes an obvious paradox because dreams are figments of our imagination and cannot be real or truthful.
Tier Three: SITUATIONAL IRONY- “Den dey all laughed real hard. But before Ah seen de picture Ah though Ah wuz just like de rest.” This quote is found on page 9 and makes a great example of situational irony because it took a photograph of herself for a girl to realize she was black.
Rick
Period 5
Tier One: Simile, page 2.
"Words walking without masters; walking altogether like harmony in a song." This is a simile because it compares the words walking to harmony in a song and uses "like."
Tier Two: Personification, page 10.
"It had called her to come and gaze on a mystery." This sentence is in a part of the story where Hurtson is describing a pear tree and how Janie had spent every minute under it. It's personification because trees cannot call to people.
Tier three: Pun, page 15.
"But you got to take in consideration you ain't no everyday chile like most of 'em." This is a pun because it can have various meanings. For example, it can mean Janie has a disease which makes her different from another child, or it can simply mean she has an unfamiliar style that most children don't enjoy.
Heather Pd. 5
Tier 1--Page 23, Simile: "well, if he do all dat whut you come in heah wid uh face long as mah arm for?" Nanny is asking Janie why she is so sad over a man that has done nothing to to her. The simile is "face as long as my arm"
Tier 2--Page 5, Allusion: "Hand me dat wash-rag on dat chair by you, honey. Lemme scrub mah feet" Jannie asks Pheoby for the rag to clean and wash her feet. She just returned to Eatonville. The reference is to a common practice upon returning from a trip, mentioned in Genesis: “And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant’s house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early and go on your ways.”
Tier 3--Page 24, Dramatic Irony: Nanny says the following: "Lawd, you know mah heart. Ah done the best Ah could. De rest is left to you"...A month later she was dead. It's ironic because after that she was dead.
Tier One: SIMILE (pg. 32)
"The morning road air was like a new dress." This is a simile because the author is making a comparison using the word like to show that the morning road was like a new dress.
Tier Two: PERSONIFICATION (pg. 25)
"She knew things that nobody had ever told her. For instance, the words of the trees and the wind." This is an example of personification because it is giving the trees and the wind a human characteristic. Trees and wind do not have words.
Tier Three: METONYMY (pg. 19)
"She ain't dead, 'cause Ah'd know it by mah feelings, but sometimes Ah wish she was at rest." This is an example of metonymy because when she states, "...but sometimes Ah wish she was at rest" which in other words, she meant that she wished that she was dead even though she wasn't.
^I always forget my name lol!^
Jessica P. :D
P. 5
Tier 1 - Simile (pg. 21)
"It was a lonesome place like a stamp in the middle of the woods where nobody had ever been." This is a simile because it is comparing the lonely place to a stamp in the middle of the woods and using the word "like".
Tier 2 - Personification (pg.1)
"The sun was gone, but he had left his footprints in the sky." This sentence is an example of personification because it is giving the sun human characteristics by calling it a "he" and saying that "he" left footprints.
Tier 3 - Apostrophe (pg.25)
"She often spoke to falling seeds and said, 'Ah hope you fall on soft ground' because she had heard seeds saying that to each other as they passed." This is an example of apostrophe because she is talking to an inanimate object that cannot reply to her.
Arantxa.
P.5
Tier One (p.2) Oxymoron - "...then her pugnacious breasts trying to bore holes in her shirt." This quote suggests an oxymoron because breasts cannot be pugnacious; in other words, they can't be quarrelsome or combative. Furthermore, they cannot literally make holes in a shirt; this also suggests a paradox.
Tier Two (p.8) Personification - "Dawn and doom was in the branches." In this citation, the author gives human characteristics to these feelings or subjects by saying that they are in the branches of a tree.
Tier Three (p.21) Pun - "There are years that ask questions and years that answer." This is a pun because the word "year" can be substituted for a person.
Yannel
Period 6
tier one: pg.32 simile- With him on it , it sat like some high ruling chair. (it compares him with a a high ruling chair)
Tier two: pg. 24 personification- Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought. (this is personification because thoughts cannot touch words.)
tier three: pg 1 metonomy- Ships at a distance have every mans wish on board. ( this is metonomy because in this case ships means dreams.)
isabel
pd. 6
Tier 1: Pg 12 Simile - "Nanny's head and face looked like the standing roots of some old tree that had been torn away by the storm." The author is comparing the nanny's appearance to that of a destroyed tree. She uses the word "like" to show the relation.
Tier 2: Pg 17 Hyperbole - "Look lak she been livin' through uh hundred years in January without one day of spring." She exaggerated her description by using "uh hundred" years.
Tier 3: Pg 7 Metonymy - "Pheoby, we been kissin' -friends for twenty years, so Ah depend on you for a good thought." Based on context clues, the term kissin' -friend is another way of saying a close friend.
Aileen M.
Period 5
In the book "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston, for chapters 1-4 had the use of many literary tools. For tier one I found on page two paragraph four "the men notices her firm buttocks like she had grape fruits in her hi pockets: the great rope of black hair swinging to her waist and unraveling in the wind like a plume; then her pugnacious breast trying to bore hole in her shirt." This sentence I took from the book is a simile because the author compared two things to each other with the use of the word "like". Another one for tier one is a metaphor on page fourteen paragraph three where the author says “De nigger women is de mule uh de world so fur as Ah can see.” This line I took from the novel is a metaphor because the author is comparing a black woman to a mule. One other example is another simile one page thirteen paragraph two “Nanny’s words made Janie’s kiss across the gatepost seem like a manure pile after rain.” The author is comparing Janie’s kiss to a pile of manure after rain.
Now for tier two, the author uses hyperbole more then once, an example worth mentioning is on page 15 paragraph three “Every tear you drop squeezes a cup uh blood outa mah heart.”, which is an exaggeration of the truth. She also uses personification a lot in her writing, for insistence; “Mah mulatto rice ain’t so good dis time. Not enough bacon grease, but Ah reckon it’ll kill hongry.” This is an example of personification because it gave the mulatto rice a human characteristic.
Tier three has a lot of use by the author as well as the other two. One thing the author used was apostrophe on page seven the last sentence on the page “Time makes everything old so the kissing, young darkness became a monstropolous old thing while Janie talked.” She also used metonymy when she told the ironic scene of the picture incident, when she said “Aw, aw! Ah’m colored!” this is metonymy because the word “colored” is what black people where called back in the day.
Amanda Frye
period 5
Sorry I made a mistake in my writing above, for the first sentence it should read For tier one I found on page two paragraph four "The men notices her firm buttocks like she had grape fruits in her hip pockets; the great rope of black hair swinging to her waist and unraveling in the wind like a plume; then her pugnacious breast trying to bore hole in her shirt."
Amanda P.5
Tier 1: Pg. 6 Onomatopoeia- "Uuh hunh". This is an example of onomatopoeia where natural sounds are imitated from the word.
Tier 2: Pg. 7 Paradox- " Dat's just de same as me 'cause mah tongue is in mah friend's mouf."I consider this a paradox or opposed to common sense because your tongue cannot be in your friend's mouth.
Tier 3: Pg. 23 Verbal Irony- "'Cause you told me Ah mus gointer love him, and, and Ah don't. Maybe if somebody was to tell me how, Ah could do it." This would be verbal irony because she was supposed to love Logan when getting married and she didn't even if she tried. So it's ironic her marrying him and then asking how she can love him because Janie doesn't.
Ana B.
Period: 6
Their Eyes Were Watching God :)
By: Zora N. H.
Tier 1 - Page 8
Simile :
"The men noticed her firm buttocks like she had grape fruits in her hip pockets; the great rope of black hair swining to her waist and unraceling in the wind like a plum;"
There comparing her figure as if there happened to be "grape fuits on her hips."
Tier 2 - Page 17
Hyperbole:
"Look lak she been livin' through uh hundred years in January without one day of spring."
She really hasnt been around for one hundred years, shes making it seem bigger than it really is.
Tier 3 - Page 16
Situational Irony :
"In the last stages of Nanny's sleep, she dreamed of voices. Voices far-off but persistent, and gradually coming nearer. Janie's voise. Janie talking in whispery snatches with a male voice she couldn't quite place. That brought her wide awak. She bolted upright and peered out of the window and saw johnny Taylor lacerating her Janie with a kiss."
She didnt expect this to happen since she would ignore him. She gets aware of her own body and her own budding sexual desires. This leads her to romanticize a boy who she once ignored.
Blanca R.
Period # 6
Oscar Rios
P.5
-An example of tier one that I found was on Page 27 when Logan told Janie "She'd grab dat ax and sling chips lak uh man". This is an example of a simile because he's comparing his first wife to a man using like or in his slang "lak".
-An example of tier two that I found was on page 11 when the narrator was describing what Janie was feeling about her surroundings and then it said "Panting breath of the breeze". This is a personification because the breeze truly has not breath.
-An example of tier three that I found was on page 30 when Janie and Logan had the conversation about her running away on him. It was dramatic irony because in the conversation she was asking Logan what he would feel if she left and he didn't know if she would leave for sure but me as the reader already knew she was going to leave regardless because the book had stated so earlier.
Tier one- This is an example of onomatopoeia because she is making a sound with her mouth in a sense of neglecting the fact that she's colored.
(Pg 9) "'Aw,aw! Ah'm colored!"
Tier two- This is an example of a hyperbole because Janie is almost forty years old and her friend is exaggerating by telling her she looks as young as her daughter.
(Pg 4) "Ah see you is. Gal, you sho looks good. You looks like youse yo' own daugther."
Tier three- This is an example of metonymy because the boy that Janie is in a relationship with is also reffered to as Tea Cake.
(Pg 3) "She's 'way too old for a boy like Tea Cake."
Carmen D.
Per. 5
Tier 1- This is an example of a simile, because Janie is describing the man her grandmas wants her to marry, like a dead skull head, using like or as.
(Pg. 13) “ He look like some ole skullhead in the grave yard.”
Tier 2- This is an example of a hyperbole, because Jaine states she rather die or be killed that having to wake up next to her husband .
(pg. 24) “ Ah’d ruther be shot wid tacks than tuh turn over in de bed and stir up de air whilist he is dere.”
Tier 3- This is an example of metonymy, because in this sentence Pheoby describes her rice as mulatto instead of saying brown rice.
(pg. 5) “Mah mulatto rice ain’t so good dis time.”
Ibis
Pd. 5
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tier 1
METAPHOR
first sentence "ships at a distance have every mans wish on board"
tier 2
HYPERBOLE
first paragraph
"... his dreams mocked to death by time."
tier 3
METONYMY
4th paragraph
"the sun was gone, but he had left his footprints in the sky."
-ivana
Tier 1: Simile
Pg 2. "The men noticed her firm buttocks like she had grape fruits in her hip pockets;..."
Tier 2: Personification
Page 10. "... the night time put on flesh and blackness."
Tier 3: Metonymy
Page 9-10 " 'Bout Mr. Washburn and de sheriff puttin' de bloodhounds on de trail tuh ketch mah papa for what he done to mah mama."
Diana Pd 6.
Tier 1: Metaphor
Pg.4 "Aw, pretty good, Ah'm tryin' to soak some uh de tiredness and de dirt outa mah feet."
She is implying that soaking the dirt from her feet is similar to soaking out the tiredness she feels.
Tier 2: Personification
Pg.2 "Words walking without masters; walking altogether like harmony in a song"
b/c words can't truly walk.
Tier 3: Pun
Pg.5 "Well, Ah see Mouth-Almighty is still sittin' in de same place. And Ah reckon they got me up in they mouth now."
Janie tries to crack a joke for the reason that everyone is talking and gosiping about her.
Fanny
p.6
Tier One:Simile pg.8
"Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone." This statement is comparing Janie's life with that of a tree using "like".
Tier Two:Personification pg.1
"The sun was gone, but it had left his footprints in the sky."The sun is given human qualities by making it sound as if it can walk and leave footprints.
Tier Three: "Aw,aw! Ah'm colored!" The word colored is being used to substitute "black".
Melanie Velasquez p5
Tier 1:
simile
"The men noticed her firm buttocks like she had grape fruits in her hip pockets; the great rope of black hair swinging to her waist and unraveling in the wind like a plum;"
uses the word 'like' to compare her body to fruits.
Tier 2:
Personification
"Words Walking without masters;walking altogether like a harmony in a song"
gives human characteristics to how "words" can walk.
Tier 3:
Metonymy
"Phoeby we been kissin'-friends for twenty years,so ah depend on you for a good thought..."
they substituted someone who is like a best friend or a really good friend as kissin' friends.
Sylvia D
Period 6
*sorry this seems so rushed or something might have been repeated I didn't have time to look through the comments since my brother will be back soon(to complain about me being on his computer -.-)*
(:
Tier 1: (oxymoron)- Page 5, Par.6
-Phoeby laughed at her friend's "rough joke."
Tier 2: (hyperbole)- Page 2, Par.2
-Betcha he off wid some gal so young she ain't even got no hairs.
Tier 3: (verbal irony)- Page10, Par.4 - Page 11, par.1
-"It was a spring afternoon...limp and languid."
Jas'Juan :)
Period 6
Tier 1:(simile)-
pg.13 "naw,nanny,no ma'am!Is dat whut he been hangin' round here for?He look like some ole skullhead in the grave yard."
Tier 2:(Personification)-
Pg. 2"made killing tools out of laughter"
Tier 3:(metonymy)-
Pg. 9 "Dey use to call me Alphabet cause so many people had done named me different names..."
Richard p.
Period 6
Tier One:
Simile Pg. 6
Paragraph 1
"So long as they get a name to gnaw on they don't care whose it is, and what about, 'specially if they can make it sound like evil."
This is a simile because it is using the word "like" to compare someone's name to evil.
Tier 2:
Hyperbole Pg. 17
Paragraph 3
"...Ah was freezin' to death under the kivvers."
This is a hyperbole because it is an overstatement, or exaggeration, to say that you almost froze to death.
Tier 3
Apostrophe Pg. 25
Paragraph 1
"She knew that God..."
This is an apostrophe because God isn't a real person, so it is addressing an imaginary person.
Maribel Blanco
Per. 6
Giloly Jose
Period: 5
Tier one
Onomatopoeia: “Humph!” because it’s a natural sound.” Page-3
Simile: “She searched as much of the world as she could from the top of the front steps and then went on down to the front gate and leaned over to gaze up and down the road.” Page-11
Tier two
Personification: “You know, honey, us colored folks is branches without roots and that makes things come round in queer ways.” This is personification because its giving colored people tree like features. Page-16
Tier three
Situational Irony: “Ah was’ spectin’ to make a school teacher outs her.” “Dat school teacher had done hide her in de woods all night long, and he had done raped mah baby and run off just before day.” This is situational irony because she wanted her daughter to be a school teacher and a school teacher ended up raping her, turning out opposite of what she had expected.Page- 19
Great job, guys. I will grade this today.
Smile!
Tier 1
Simile- ...;the great rope of black hair swinging to her waist and unraveling in the wind like a plum;.. pg 2 (This is a simile because they are comparing her hair unraveling in the wind to a plum using "like"
Tier 2
Personification- "The rose of the world breathing out smell". pg 10 ( This is personification because the author is explains how the roses are breathing, which roses cant actually breath.)
Tier 3
Metonymy- "The sun was gone, but he had left his footprints in the sky" pg 1 (This is metonymy because it can either mean that the footprints are for the clouds or the colors that the sun makes when setting)
per. 05
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