After Jody slaps Janie, Hurston writes:

Question

"Janie stood where he left her...until something fell off the shelf inside her. Then she went there to see what it was. It was her image of Jody tumbled down and shattered."

The passage is an example of

Select one:
A. metaphorical language
B. allusion
C. parallelism
D. irony

Is this metaphorical language? (I think it is, I saw someone else said allusion but I think it's A.)

Answer 1

I agree. The shelf, the image shattering, etc., are metaphors.