The imagery in this excerpt from Their Eyes Were Watching God is an example of a
conceit
dialect
discourse
Simile

Conceit

Explanation:

Conceit is described as a literary device in which two very unlike things are compared in a surprising or unusual way.

Normally, conceit are very long, and can in fact be kept or used throughout an entire poem or essay. In this case, the speaker compares a marriage to all the beauty that she sees in nature, such as the sunlight, the bee, the pear tree, and the trees. Although the items are not connected in any way, the metaphor suggests that the marriage is seen as a positive one that brings a lot of joy.

all persons entering into t

he employment of the compan

y, are considered as engaged

for twelve months, and those who leave

sooner, or do not comply with all these

regulations, will not be entitled

to a regular discharge.  

while it was true that the cotton gin reduced the labor of removing seeds, it did not reduce the need for slaves to grow and pick the cotton.

explanation:

before eli whitney's invention of the cotton gin, picking and cleaning cotton was a slow, labor-intensive job. workers, usually slaves, had to pick the seeds from the cotton fibers by hand. this invention made it possible to grow large amounts of cotton on big farms and make money.