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The House on Mango Street

by Sandra Cisneros

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The House on Mango Street

In The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros employs various literary devices such as imagery, simile, and personification. For example, she uses imagery to vividly describe the neighborhood and...

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The House on Mango Street

Esperanza's attitude toward writing is that it heals her by helping her to process her experience. Cisneros uses figurative language like personification to show how Mango Street is letting Esperanza...

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The House on Mango Street

In Chapter Four of The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros uses personification in one of her most important quotes. Esperanza, the main character, is named after her grandmother. Esperanza does...

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The House on Mango Street

The “dizzy finger” means that the diseases are not carefully choosing who they pick. This is an example of personification.  Personification is a type of figurative language in which something...

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The House on Mango Street

Esperanza wants a house of her own so badly that her dream seems to be an extension of herself. The house does not only represent a living space but Esperanza's life. Also, she associates her place...

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