Chp 17 The House on Mango Street Literary Devices

Figurative Language and Literary Devices in chapter 17 "The Family of Little Feet" in The House on Mango Street

Multiple Choice

"Grandpa's feet were fat and doughy like thick tamales....stuffed into white socks and brown leather shoes." What literary device is best represented in this quote?

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

• Alliteration

Multiple Choice

"The baby's feet had ten tiny toes, pale and see-through like a salamander's...." What literary device is represented in RED?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Personification

Multiple Choice

"The mother's feet, plump and polite, descended like white pigeons from the sea of pillow, across the linoleum roses, ....." demonstrates which TWO examples of literary devices:

• Simile and Metaphor

• Alliteration and Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor and Idiom

• Alliteration and Simile

Multiple Choice

"Hurray! Today we are Cinderella because our feet fit exactly..." is a good example of:

• alliteration

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

Multiple Choice

"The truth is it is scarey to look down at your foot that is no longer yours and see attached a long long leg." What device is represented by the words in GREEN?

• Idiom

• Personification

• Symbol

• Alliteration

Multiple Choice

"We have legs. Skinny and spotted with satin scars where scabs were picked, but legs, all our own...." What device is represented by the BLUE words?

• Idiom

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

"It's Rachel who learns to walk the best all strutted in those MAGIC high heels"

• What is the "magic" produced in the shoes? (Discuss with class)

"It's Rachel who learns to walk the best all strutted in those MAGIC high heels"

• "She teaches us to cross and uncross our legs, and to run like a double-dutch rope.." is an example of a simile. Make an inference about what is suggests?

"She teaches us...how to walk down to the corner so that the shoes talk back to you with every step."

What literary device does this represent?

Open Ended

Based on part of the previous slide's quote..."So that the shoes talk back to you with every step," What are those shoes likely to be saying to the girl wearing them?

Write ONE line as if YOU are the shoe talking to Rachel, Esperanza or Lucy:

Multiple Choice

"Lucy, Rachel, me ... tee-tottering like so... down to the corner where the men can't take their eyes off us"---- Which device is represented in GREEN?

• Symbol

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Idiom

Multiple Choice

"We must be Christmas" is an example of a:

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Idiom

"Them are dangerous, he says. You girls too young to be wearing shoes like that."

• What is the implication here? (Discuss with class)

• Make an inference (read between the lines)

Multiple Choice

The bum man's WHISKEY WORDS would be an example of:

• personification

• metaphor

• alliteration

• Idiom

Multiple Choice

The girls "strutting" in these shoes might be an example of:

• idiom

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• symbolism

Multiple Choice

When referring to the shoes, "the lemon shoes and the red shoes and the shoes that used to be white but are now pale blue," is the narrator's way of using:

• Simile

• Repetition

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

Multiple Choice

..."Lucy hides {the shoes}...under a powerful bushel basket on the back porch, until one Tuesday her mother....throws them away" is demonstrating:

• metaphor

• idiom

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

Open Ended

The partial quote at the very end says "But no one complains" after the shoes are thrown away-----why do YOU think the girls don't complain after Lucy's mom throws the basket of shoes away? (Write your response below)

Open Ended

What do you think the shoes SYMBOLIZE in this vignette? (write a short response below)