Esperanza Rising Fig Lang. R 7-9

 “Row upon row of white wooden cabins formed long lines, connected like bunk houses.”

• metaphor

• simile

• alliteration

• simile and alliteration

“Esperanza could hear them talking in English, the words hard and clipped, as if they were

      speaking with sticks in their mouths.”

•  personification

• idiom

• simile

• metaphor

“Esperanza felt anger crawling up her throat.”

•  personification

• idiom

• simile

• alliteration

“The talking suddenly stopped in the other room.”

•  personification

• idiom

• simile

• alliteration

“The coffee and sausage made her stomach growl and she tried to remember when she had 

       last eaten.”

•  personification

• idiom

• simile

• alliteration

“Several more onion trucks passed by, their smell accosting her eyes and nose as much as the

       diapers.”

•  personification

• idiom

• simile

• alliteration

“After it [the truck] passes, the sharp smell told her they were onions, the dry outer skins

      being shredded by the wind.”

•  personification

• idiom

• simile

• alliteration

“A group of girls were crowded next to the cardboard box, cooing and cradling them.”

•  personification

• idiom

• simile

• alliteration

“It [the broomstick] swung wildly.”

•  personification

• idiom

• simile

• alliteration

“Esperanza remembered the rose garden as a blackened graveyard.”

•  personification

• idiom

• simile

• alliteration