Figurative Language and Literary Devices for The House on Mango Street

Question 1

"And everywhere the sleepy smell of rotting wood, damp earth and dusty hollyhocks" (95).

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Imagery

Question 2

"I looked because I wanted to be brave, straight into the dusty cat fur of his eyes" (72).

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Metaphor

Question 3

"She was sprinkling water on them from an empty pop bottle and smoking a cigarette" (97).

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Imagery

Question 4

"Flowers stopped obeying the little bricks" (95).

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Personification

Question 5

"It's like all of a sudden he let go a million moths all over the dusty furniture" (20).

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Hyperbole

Question 6

"Eddie Vargas laid his head beneath a hibiscus tree and fell asleep there like a Rip Van Winkle" (95).

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Allusion

Question 7

"Four skinny trees with skinny necks and pointy elbows like mine" (74).

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Personification

Question 8

"I looked at him like he was glass" (72).

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Simile

Question 9

"Rafaela leans out the window and leans on her elbow and dreams her hair is like Rapunzel's" (79).

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Allusion

Question 10

"Mama says she is a skinny thing, pale like salamanders that have never seen the sun" (71).

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Simile

Question 11

"She went with the baby boy in a blue blanket...her lavender hatboxes, a dozen boxes of satin high heels" (77).

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Imagery

Question 12

"Sally is the girl with eyes like Egypt" (81).

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Simile

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