Page 116 - "Hurry up and come because he was about to turn into pure sugar thinking about her." Metaphor.
Zora Neal Hurston uses a metaphor here to describe just how much Tea Cake loves her. A man and pure sugar have very little in common, but the sweetness or Tea Cakes love is just the same. The effect of this metaphor is that is tells you just how their relationship is at this point, and the saying fits the dialect of the characters.
Page 119 - "Hair all gray and black and bluish and reddish in streaks. All the capers that cheap dye could cut was showing her hair." Motif.
Although in this case, it is not Janie's hair, hair the used to represent that status of someone else. In this case, Annie Tyler, a woman who ran off with a young man just as Janie has. Her hair became dirty and aged when she came back to her town. This may be foreshadowing Janie's fate, or just a way of planting worry into her mind. Regardless, hair is used to show the status of a person in this quote.
Page 129 - "Big Lake Okechobee, big beans, big cane, big weeds, big everything." Parallel Strcture.
Parallel structure is used by Hurston to describe this new landscape in Janie's eyes. Everything is big. The use of the word big on each noun gets the point across better. The image of the big beans, and big cane, and big weeds, and big everything helps paint a picture in your mind of how the fields must have seemed to Janie. Along with the fact that the place is called Big Lake Okechobee, so "big" is the perfect adjective to describe everything there.
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