Sophocles: Journal 1 (Part 2)

Literary Devices

"Our city reeks with the smoke of burning incense, rings with cries for the Healer and wailing for the dead" (159, 4-5), Imagery, appeals to smell and hearing, takes the reader into the story and shows the desperation of the city.

"I would be blind to misery..."(159, 14), Hyperbole, shows Oedipus' devotion to his people.

"And black Death luxuriates in the raw, wailing miseries of Thebes" (160,37-38), Personification, makes the black death seem resiliant, and it shows that the preist has little hope of it moving on.

"So now again, Oedipus, king, we bend to you, your power-" (161, 49-50), Tone, the tone is pleading and makes the priest more sicere and desperate.

Characterization, 161, Shows Oedipus' past accomplishments and how much his people believe in him.

"[...] the trail of the ancient guilt so hard to trace?" (165, 124), Metaphor, emphasizes the difficulty of the task.

Characterization, 167, shows Oedipus' passion and willingness to defend his people.

"Racked with terror-terror shakes my heart [...] I worship you in dread..." (168, 170-174), Repetition, gives a pleading and desperate tone to the people.

"Thebes like a great army dying" (169, 194), Simile, highlights the enormity of the situation in Thebes.

Tone, 169, Hopelessness, shows that the people of Thebes have no hope of overcoming this situation.

Journal 5

Literary Devices

Metaphor: pg.116, "Hurry up and come because he was about to turn into pure sugar thinking about her." This metaphor is used to emphasize how much Tea Cake is in love with Janie. Hurston uses sugar to show that it is more of a sweet love than a passionate love

Imagery: pg. 120, "Janie dozed off to sleep but she woke up un time to see the sun sending up spies ahead of him to mark out the road through the dark." Hurston usually used the sun to symbolize Janie's relationship with her past husbands. Lately she has been using the moon or night time to represent Janie and Tea Cake. This imagery and personification gives the reader a picture in thier head of light coming over the horizon. This shows that Janie is about ready to take it for what it is and call her and Tea Cake another failed relationship where he has taken advantage of her. This is shown through the imagery of light leaking into night and soon it will dominate over all.

Personification: pg. 128, "Her soul crawled out from its hiding place." Hurston uses this personification to emphasize Janie becoming her old self again. Using "hiding place" shows that it was once there but had to hide because of something or someone. Crawling gives the reader the image of being apprehensive but also willing to do it. This also gives Janie a big dynamic.

Journal 1

There is a great difference betweent the narration and the dialect. The narration is more formal and imaginitve. The author uses a lot of metaphors and figurative language that creates the picture in the readers mind. While the dialect is very stereotypicaly uneducated, the characters use a lot of slang and slur their words together lazily. This creates an atmosphere in the readers mind, giving them an insight into how African Americans were at that time, and how thier culture was. This juxtaposition shows the reader the full picture, giving them a background image and the focal points and the character and how they act in the picture and giving them a voice.