She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold
of the sun and the parting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her. she saw a dust-
bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and
the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom andfrothing with delight.
so this was a marriage! she had been summoned to behold a revelation. then janie felt a pain remorseless
sweet that left her limp and languid.
the imagery in this excerpt from their eyes were watching god is an example of a
conceit
dialect
discourse
simile