Janie and the pear tree- Metaphor

The men noticed her firm buttocks like she had grape fruits in her hip pockets- simile

“but Ah’m uh man even if Ah is de Mayor. But de mayor’s wife is somethin’ different again. Anyhow they’s liable tuh need me tuh say uh few words over de carcass, dis bein’ uh special case. But you ain’t goin’ off in all dat mess uh commonness." - Simile

"he's de wind and we'se de grass." -Hyperbole 

"took the bloom off of things"  -Metaphor 

“The store itself kept her with a sick headache” -Metaphor 

“ the morning road air was like a new dress” : simile 

“She knew the world as a stallion rolling in the blue pasture of the ether” : metaphor

“You wants to make me stuck de same sorrow yo’ mama did , eh? : alliteration  

Janie and the pear tree. Janie blooming into adulthood  metaphor

“Nanny’s words made janie’s kiss across the gatepost seem like a manure pile after a rain.”   simile   

“The men sitting on the porches have been working all day and have been treated like mules throughout the working day.”  simile

“Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men.”  metaphor

“They passed nations through their mouths.” metaphor

 "with the sun for a shawl"simile

“Now women forget all those things they don’t want to remember, and remember everything they don’t want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.” metaphor

“He had left footprints in the sky.”  metaphor 

“They became lords of sounds and lesser things.” metaphor