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

Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." those tests were constructed around items like fill-in-the-blank sentence completion, such as “even though tom was mary thought he was ” and the correct answer always seemed to be the most bland combinations of thoughts, for example, “even though tom was foolish, mary thought he was ridiculous.” well, according to my mother, there were very few limitations as to what tom could have been and what mary might have thought of him. so i never did well on tests like that. how does tan build a central idea of her story in the excerpt? tan discusses the types of questions on achievement tests to support the idea that the tests limit students’ ability to write well. tan explains a question on a language achievement test to support the idea that the tests should include more interesting content. tan gives an example of her experience with achievement tests to support the idea that they are not always accurate measures of language ability. tan considers how her mother might answer a question on a test to support the idea that nonstandard english limits a person’s ability to communicate.