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: Pastiche

So Bethany startd to wish for love. Love, the gentle being with a warm soul that infects the hearts of men. The soft one that dwells on a foundation of family, and friends. How does Love complete its task, and what force can stop him? He grasps the healed, hurt and happy. Grasps their very existence, and waits, to blossom and grow. Has grasped the hearts and heads of the heavy laden. She was likely ot feel his gentle touch on her heart soon enough. She was scared and aprehensive too. Poor John! He should not be going through this alone. She tried to console him herself, but he sent her away. She was good with like smaller big problems, but she ws like so lost here. He would be fine when his brother called him and got himto move on. He was never going to get over her. That is what he kept telling himself. But his brother promised her he would, and she believed him. But if he didn't, soon enough she would know for sure, because he called ehr with a gentle tone in his voice. He would not usually call her but did so today but not to talk. He just told her he loved her and waited. Realization, the door to truth, spread through Bethany's body.

Literary Terms Journal

1. pg.26, Dynamic: "Long before the year was up, Janie noticed that her husband had stopped talking in rhymes to her." The author uses this dynamic with Janie's husband to emphasize a change that he had gone through in the past six months. This obviously affected Mr.Killicks, but it will also affect Janie. Before she was ready to love her husband eventually, but she can see now that that cannot happen because he does not love her the same way that she thought he would back.

2. pg.28, Dialect: "Janie pumped it off until she got a good look at the man. He talked friendly while he drank. Joe Starks was the name, yeah Joe Starks from in and through Georgy. Been workin' for white folks all his life."
In this passage the reader experiences a sudden change in dialect. This brings us out of the world of painting the picture for the story and back into the actual story.

3. pg.28, Foreshadowing: "Joe Starks was the name, yeah Joe Starks from in and through Georgy."
We know from the beginning of the book that Janie's name is eventually going to be Starks. So this sets up the reader for the future of the story. Yes, we know that she will eventually marry Starks, but that intrigues the reader to read on and find out how that takes place.

4. pg. 32, Epiphany: "A feeling of sudden newness and change came over her."
This sudden realization or mood shift by Janie, also causes a mood shift in the story. The mood was slightly angry, and annoyed before the epiphany. Then after the mood shifts into free and hopefull, getting the reader more excited to find out what happens next.

5. pg. 31, Imagery: "The sun from the ambush was threatening the world with red daggers, but the shadows were gray and solid-looking around the barn. Logan with hes shovel looked like a black bear doing some clumsy dance on his hind legs."
The authors use of imagery in this passage helps to highlight Janie's mood at the time. The red daggers and the solid shadows show that she's angry and maybe a little sad. While the image of Logan looking like a bear dancing on his hind legs shows her resentment towards her husband by making.