In Their Eyes Were Watching God, the characters' style of speech is called ...

A. accent

B. slang

C. dialect

D. twang

C. Dialect.

Zora Neale Hurston translates her characters' spoken dialogue into rich dialect of written prose while retaining the phonetics for how they speak. This dialect reflects how characters would speak to each other and gives the reader a more rich understanding of the community and environment within the story.