Read this excerpt from chapter 6 of "Their eyes were watching god" and answer the question. “Gal, Ah’m crazy ‘bout you,” Charlie goes on to the entertainment of everybody. “Ah’ll do anything in the world except work for you and give you mah money.”

The girls and everybody else help laugh. They know it’s not courtship. It’s acting-out courtship and everybody is in the play. The three girls hold the center of the stage till Daisy Blunt comes walking down the street in the moonlight.

In this excerpt, the action takes place on the front porch of Jody’s store. Which literary device does Hurston use to help the reader visualize the setting as a stage?

- metaphor
- simile
- imagery
- none of the above