Literary Devices in The House on Mango Street

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Literary device in: "My papa's hair is like a broom"

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

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Literary device in: "And me, my hair is lazy"?

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personification

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

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Literary device in: "My mother's hair, like little rosettes, like little candy circles..."

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

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Literary device in: "Until then I am a red balloon, a balloon tied to an anchor"

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metaphor

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

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Literary device in: "My great-grandmother. I would've liked to have known her, a wild horse of a woman, so wild she wouldn't marry."

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metaphor

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

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Literary device in: "Until my great-grandfather threw a sack over her head and carried her off. Just like that, as if she were a fancy chandelier."

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

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Literary device in: "Can't you see they smell like a broom"?

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

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Literary device in: "But what you remember most is this tree, huge, with fat arms and mighty families of squirrels in the higher branches" (22).

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personification

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Front

Literary device in: "Not the way you can tell with Rachel and Lucy who have the same fat popsicle lips like everybody else in their family" (17).

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metaphor

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Front

Literary device in: "I am in love with those two green apples you call eyes"

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metaphor

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9