Their Eyes Were Watching God is set in the Florida Everglades, a swampy area. In the novel, the setting is referred to as “the muck.” This description is an example of

Calling the swampy Everglades “the muck” creates a vivid, concrete picture of the setting. That use of descriptive language is imagery. It is not exaggeration, since the phrase does not overstate something, or dialect, which refers to a distinctive way of speaking.

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