Mood:
The thing made itself into pictures and hung around Janie's bedside all night long"(120). Mood is used to show how the thoughts of death and love and her missing Tea Cake flowed through her head as she sat there. The mood expressed is a worried thought.
Oxymoron:
"The director spoke to me again. But I wasn't really listening anymore." The oxymoron is when the director "spoke" to Meursault and he was not "listening" anymore. The words contradict each other because one refers him speaking which he would have to pay attention and listen to know and then Meursault saying he was not really listening anymore.
Euphemism:
"Mother Deceased"(3) instead of saying dead mom, or your mother is dead, they use deceased to make it sound more sympathetic towards the character.
Motif:
"I just stood there at the bottom, my head ringing from the sun, unable to face the effort it would take to climb the wooden staircase and face the women again"(56-57). Multiple motifs show up in the novel. The motif of the sun is used directly towards the heat, it's warmth, and brightness. Another motif is the use of women, they are resembled mainly to do with sex. Motifs in this are used to show how the heat of the sun causes ringing in Meursaults head.
Theme:
"a gramme is better than a damn"(116). The theme portrayed by this quote is controlling society by means of technology. This is shown both through using recoding devices to place messages in the childrens heads and mechanically created soma to control a constant high for all beings in the society.
satire:
"Mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters. But there were also husbands"(40). Satire is used to make fun of actual relationships in the novel. All forms of relationships are frowned down upon in the society. The characters in the society have trouble forming stable relationships with other humans.
Structure:
In their eyes were watching god the book is set up to go around Janie's thoughts. This is an example of how structure is used.
Simile:
"But the heat was so intense that it was just as bad standing still in the blinding stream falling from the sky"(57). Simile is used to describe the steam falling from the sky. Normally steams do not fall from the sky.
Juxtaposition:
"there was the church and the villagers on the sidewalks, then red geraniums on the graves in the cemetery, Perez fainting"(18). The author compares and describes the red geraniums at the same time as the cemetery and Perez fainting.
Ambiguity:
"He asked if I loved Maman. I said, yes, the same as anyone"(67). Two meanings are proposed in this passage, Meaursault saying he loved his mother, and a deeper meaning saying that it was not what everyone had recalled as the same love that a mother son relationship would have.
Imagery:
"a gloaty, sparkly white"(47). Imagery is used to enhance the houses appearance for the reader to achieve a clear vivid visual that they can quickly identify.
Tone:
"That evening I thought about it and told myself that maybe she had gotten tired of being the girlfriend of a condemned man. It also occured to me that maybe she was sick, or dead. The tone is set by Meursault talking about Marie. I think that he is bringing up a bit of a concern or worry towards the matter because he begins to think about Marie again after she stops sending letters to him. I think the tone is worry and concern.
Parallel Structure:
"A society of Alphas couldn't fail to be unstable and miserable"(222). Parallels structure is used between this sentence and in the next sentence when Mustapha Mond talks about alphas having individual thoughts and hereditary which would lead to society being unstable and miserable.
Personification:
"The sea gasped for air with each shallow, stifled little wave that broke on the sand"(57). Personification is used to show how the sea had waves that were almost like humans gasping for air.
Symbol:
"Crosses had their tops cut and became T's"(52). Symbol is used when crosses tops are cut off to change from Christianity to a new age of Ford in the book. T's are the Symbol for Ford in the book.
Foil:
"the burst of applause was cut short by Joe taking the floor himself"(43). Foil is used when a supporting character Tony is used to make Joe look better in the book. This is done by Tony being one of the towns peoples and Joe being the mayor.
Hyperbole:
"An abyss threatening to swallow up society"(101). The Hyperbole used is the court describing Meursaults heart as an "Abyss". A heart is not an abyss it is an internal organ, this term is to put emphasis on Meursaults heartlessness.
Point of view:
"She wasn't even angry. Logan was accusing her of her mamma, her grandmama, and her feelings, and she couldn't do a thing about any of it"(32) Point of view is used to show Janie's feelings towards the argument she had with Logan.
Denoument:
"Told me in a bizarre language that i was to have my head cut off in a public square in the name of the french people"(108) Denouement is used in describing the Judges strange language when talking about cutting off Meursaults head.
Epiphany:
"As is a blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself-so like a brother, really-I felt that i had been happy and that i was happy again"(122-123). Epiphany comes into play when Meursault comes to understand that he was actually happy with his life rather than what he seemed to be in a "soulless" or emotional manner to everyone else in the book.
Chronology:
"When I entered prison, they took away my belt, my shoelaces, my tie, and everything I had in my pockets, My cigarettes in particular. Once in my cell, I asked to have them back. But I was told I wasn't allowed"(78)
Chronology is used to show specific times when Meursault is put in jail to the time spent in there and the process taken to be put in there.
Antihero:
"She saw him stiffen himself all over as he leveled and took aim"(184). Antihero is used to show the difference in Teacakes choices when he is under the mad-dog sickness. He goes from a loving husband who treats Janie very well to a man who is about ready to kill.
Repetition:
"The third was hitting her with a whip. Once, twice, three times; and each time Linda screamed[..] "Please,Please."[...] The whip came down again, and again Linda screamed"(126) Repetition is used on the multiple times Linda is whipped for sleeping with multiple men in the reservation.
Allusion:
"The rest of the town looked like servants' quarters surrounding the "Big House". And different from everybody else in the town he put off moving in until it had painting, in and out. And look at the way he painted it- a gloaty, sparkly white"(47)Allusion is used to compare the peoples homes in the town to the mayors glamorous living conditions. The Allusion is the Beautiful "gloaty, sparkly white" house which represents almost as if it were an art piece.
Paradox:
"Dawn and doom was in the branches"(8). Paradox is shown through the contrast of dark and light is used at the same time when describing the tree Janie saw her life like.
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