Read the excerpt below and answer the question. 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
Conceit refers to a literary device in which two very unlike things are compared in an unusual or surprising way. Conceits are usually very long, and can in fact be maintained throughout an entire essay or poem. In this case, the speaker compares a marriage to all the beauty that she sees in nature, such as the pear tree, the sunlight, the bee, and the trees. Although the items are not related in any way, the metaphor implies that the marriage is a positive thing that brings a lot of joy.
