Esperanza Rising Fig. Lang. R 10-14

“She had not opened her valise since before the dust storm and saw that the fine brown

      powder had even found its way deep inside. As it had found its way into Mama’s lungs.”

• idiom

• alliteration

• simile

• personification

“She had not opened her valise since before the dust storm and saw that the fine brown

      powder had even found its way deep inside. As it had found its way into Mama’s lungs.”

• metaphor

• alliteration

• simile

• personification

“What have I done to deserve this honor, mi reina?”

• metaphor

• alliteration

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• personification

“A thick tule ground fog that hugged the earth settled in the valley, surrounding them, as if 

      they stood within a deep gray cloud.”

• metaphor

• alliteration

• simile and personification

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“A thick tule ground fog that hugged the earth settled in the valley, surrounding them, as if 

      they stood within a deep gray cloud.”

• simile

• alliteration

• personification

• idiom

“Her other life seemed like a story she had read in a book a long time ago, a fairy tale.”

• simile

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• personification

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“Cut and scarred, swollen and stiff, they [Esperanza’s hands] looked like the hands of a very

       old man.”

• simile

• alliteration

• metaphor

• simile and alliteration

“Mama looked like a ghost of herself.”

• idiom

• alliteration

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• personification

“Then she helped Mama lie on her back, her hair now framing her face against the white 

       linens, like a braided halo.”

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“Esperanza studied her hands a few nights later as she walked toward the cabin and hoped

         Hortensia had a few more avocados.”

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