Literary Devices in The House on Mango Street

What type of literary device is found in the following quite:

"My papa's hair is like a broom" (6).

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What type of literary device is found in the following quite:

"And me, my hair is lazy" (6).

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What type of literary device is found in the following quite:

"My mother's hair, like little rosettes, like little candy circles all curly and pretty because she pinned it in pincurls allday..." (6).

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What type of literary device is found in the following quite:

"Until then I am a red balloon, a balloon tied to an anchor" (9).

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What type of literary device is found in the following quite:

"My great-grandmother. I would've liked to have known her, a wild horse of a woman, so wild she wouldn't marry" (11).

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What type of literary device is found in the following quite:

"Until my great-grandfather threw a sack over her head and carried her off. Just like that, as if she were a fancy chandaleir" (11).

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What type of literary device is found in the following quite:

"Can't you see they smell like a broom" (14).

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What type of literary device is found in the following quite:

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

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What type of literary device is found in the following quite:

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

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What type of literary device is found in the following quite:

"I am in love with those two green apples you call eyes" (27).

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3