<em>Their Eyes Were Watching God</em> (1937) is a novel by African American author Zola Neale Hurston. While it was poorly received when published, it is now one of the most celebrated American novels of the 20th century.
In this excerpt, Hurston conveys her own cultural experiences by her use of dialect. The way she portrays Tea Cake's speech shows her personal experiences as a black woman living in the Southern U. S. during this time period.
Gladwell's claim in Chapter Five is that a successful entrepreneur is the product of his place and relevance in a specific time period. ... Gladwell's claim in Chapter Five is that a successful entrepreneur is the product of his place and relevance in a specific time period
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<span>1) Alliteration is used in "Grim and greedy, he grasped". Alliteration is a literary technique that can be determined if there is the same letter or sound at the beginning of closely connected words. In this case you can see the repetition of the letters "g,r'' which form the repeated sound [gr].
2) Synecdoche is used in "The Wale-path". Synecdoche a part of figurative language that describes one thing which is used to refer to a related thing. The origin meaning of the phrase 'The Wale-path' is actually 'the sea'. Synecdoche usually employs the use of metonymy, just like in this case.
3) Kenning is used in "they drive their keels o'er the darkling wave". Kenning came from the Anglo-Saxon poetry. This literary device usually appears as as a two-word phrase describing objects through metaphors.This phrase is actually taken from 'Beowulf' which is an example of Anglo-Saxon poetry.
4) Epithet is used in "the ruler-of-man". Epithet usually poses as an adjective or phrase that expresses a quality of the mentioned character. This phrase contains a characteristic that belongs to a person.<span>
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Parameters are sets of fixed limits or boundaries that are established to indicate the way in which something should be done. In other words, parameters determine the performance of a certain action by establishing limits. Moreover, context clues are hints that a writer gives in order to help the reader to understand the meaning of a term. <u>The type of context clue used in this sentence is example</u>. Furthermore,<u> this context clue is introduced by means of "such as", which is followed by different examples of parameters</u> (rules, guidelines and instructions)<u> in order to define that term</u>.