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Before that...before that..." (3).

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"would have real stairs, not hallway stairs, but stairs" (4)

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"Our house would be white with trees around it, a great big yard and grass growing without a fence". Page 6

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"You live there? The way she said it made me feel like nothing."

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" The house on mango street is not the way they told it at all. It's small and red with tight steps in front and the windows are so small." Page 4

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"its small and red with tight steps in front and windows so small you'd think they were holding their breath."

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"the paint peeling, wooden bars papa had nailed on the windows so we wouldn't fall out". (page 5)

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"Windows so small you'd think they were holding their breath."

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"windows so small you'd think they were holding their breath" pg.4 p. 3 line 3

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"Our house will be be white with trees around it, a great big yard and grass growing without a fence."(Page 4)

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"And inside it would have real stairs, not hallway stairs, but stairs inside like the houses on T.V. And we'd have a basement and at least three washrooms"

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"but stairs inside like the houses on T.V."

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"the front door is so swollen you have to push hard to get in. "

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 Before That we lived on keeler. Before Keeler it was paulina Jada.

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 Before That we lived on keeler. Before Keeler it was paulina Jada.

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It's small and red with tight steps in front and windows so small you'd think they were holding their breath. Bricks crumbling in places, and the front door is so swollen you have to push hard to get in" Page 4, lines 21-24

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Imagery: "The house on Mango Street is not the way they told it at all. It's small and red with tight steps in front and windows so small you'd think they were holding their breath. Bricks are crumbling in places, and the front door is so swollen you have to push hard to get in." (Page 4)

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The author uses imagery to imagine a beautiful house. " And inside it would have real stairs, not hallway stairs, but stairs inside like the house on T.V." The author would imagine real stairs in the house. A house they wouldn't have to move every year. Paragraph 4

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"My papa's hair is like a broom, all up in the air" - Page 6 Lines 1-2

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Using the term "Mood." The author creates an atmosphere by describing the families hair. For example, "Mom's hair smells like bread." (Page 7, line 15) It gives you an idea that is imaginable. It sets the 'mood.'

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"My mothers hair is like little rosettes"(Page 6)

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Celein.Gideon | simile and personification 

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Celein.Gideon | simile and personification 

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" the warm smell of bread before you bake it. ” page 6 , Lines 11

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"And Kiki whos the youngest, has hair like fur."

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"And Kiki, who is the youngest, has hair like fur." (Page 6)

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"Mama's hair that smells like bread" (page 7)

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"My mothers hair is like little rosettes, like little candy circles all curly and pretty." Page 6

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"my mother's hair, like little rosettes, like little candy circles all curly and pretty - sweet to put your nose into when she is holding you - the smell of bread you bake it"

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"And Kiki, who is the youngest, has hair like fur. "

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"my papas hair is like a broom, all up in the air" page 6 line 1

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"My papa's hair is like a broom" pg.6, p.1, line1-2

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" Carlos hair is thick and straight." Page 6

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"Kiki who is the youngest has hair like fur". The author refers to KiKi's hair like fur because it if probably soft and thick.

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Hyperbole and (or) Personification  | Khadija M

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Hyperbole and (or) Personification  | Khadija M

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"My hair is lazy. It never obeys barrettes or bands."

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my papa s hair is like a broom, all up in the air

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Simile: "My Papa's hair is like a broom, all up in the air." (Page 6)

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"My papas hair is like a broom."

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"Until then, I am a red balloon, a balloon tied to an anchor." Lines 14-15

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

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" I am a red balloon, a balloon tied to an anchor." (Page 15)

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

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

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" I am a red balloon, a balloon tied to an anchor . " Page 9 , lines 14-15

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Verbal Irony and (or) Hyperbole | Khadija M

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Verbal Irony and (or) Hyperbole | Khadija M

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"The boys and the girls live in separate worlds the boys in their universe and we in ours." (Page 8)

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"I am a red balloon tied to an anchor." jaden

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"I am a red balloon, a balloon tied to an anchor."

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In the short story Boys and Girls the author talks about how "Girls and boys live in separate worlds". She and her sister have their own worlds while her brothers have theirs own world. And the author talks about how "she is a balloon tied to and anchor". Like she is getting held back from her own life.

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"Until then I am a red balloon, a balloon tied to an anchor." Pg.9 P.1 Lines 14-15

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"But in Spanish my name is made out of a softer something, like silver..." - Page 11 Lines 14 - 15

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"But in Spanish my name is made of a softer something, like silver"

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"At school they say my name funny as if the syllables were made out of tin and hurt the roof of your mouth." (Page 11)

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"But in spanish my name is made out of a softer something like silver." (Page 11)

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"Just like that. As if she were a fancy chandelier" -Lindsey

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"But in Spanish my name is made out of a softer something, like silver."

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"At school they say my name funny as if the syllables were made out of tin and hurt the roof of your mouth."

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"It is the Mexican records my father plays on Sunday mornings when he is shaving, songs like sobbing.

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"A wild horse of a woman."

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Imagery: "My great-grandmother. I would've liked to have known her, a wild horse of a woman, so wild she wouldn't marry. Until my great-grandfather threw a sack over her head and carried her off." (Page 11)

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The author talks about how she would wish her name would have been something else. The authors said people say her name in a weird way. "At school they say my name funny as if the syllables were made out of tin and hurt the roof of your mouth". The author likes her name despite the place she got it from just like in this line. She got it from her great grandmother but doesn't want her place by the window. "Esperanza. I have inherited her name , but I don't want to inherit her place by the window"

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"Baby cats, big cats, skinny cats, sick cats"(13).

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"Cats asleep like little donuts".

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her house is like cat heaven

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"She used to own a building as big as a whale, but her brother sold it." (Page 12)

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"Two girls raggedy as rats live across the street" - Page 12 Line 6

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"Her house is like cat heaven" (Page 13)

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"She used to own a building big as a whale, but her brother sold it.

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Her house is like cat heaven.

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"Baby cats, big cats, skinny cats, sick cats"

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"Baby cats, big cats, skinny cats, sick cats."

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Metaphor: "Cathy who is queen of cats"

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"Baby cats, Big cats, Skinny cat, Sick cat. Cats asleep like donuts." The author speaks of cats as if they were round like little donuts sleeping.

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"They are wearing shiny Sunday shoes without socks"

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

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"Can't you see they smell like a broom."page14

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"Rachel is skinny enough to get up on the handelbars which makes the bike all wobbly as if the wheels are spaghetti." (Page 16)

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Imagery: "Their clothes are crooked and old. They are wearing shiny Sunday shoes without socks. It makes their bald ankles all red." (Pages 14-15)

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" Cathy is tugging my arm and I know whatever I do next will make her mad forever. "

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"Past my house, sad and red and crumbly in places" Pg. 16 Lines4-5

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

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"but all of a sudden and surprised like a pile of dishes breaking."

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Imagery: "Not the shy ice cream bells' giggle of Rachel and Lucy's family, but all of a sudden and surprised like pile of dishes breaking." (Page 17)

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"but all of a sudden and suprised like a pile of dishes breaking" (Page 17)

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"but all of a sudden and surprised like a pile of dishes breaking" Pg.17 Lines6-7

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Imagery: "Tables with their feet upside-down and rows and rows of refrigerators with round corners and couches that spin dust in the air when you punch them and a hundred T.V.'s that don't work probably." (Page 19)

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"The store is small with just a dirty window for light" (Page 19)

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"The dog is big like a man dressed up in a dog suit"

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"Out front there are twenty-one steps, all lopsided and jutting like crooked teeth," (Page 22)

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"The seats were big and soft like a sofa,"

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" but our alley is too skinny "

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"whole store has skinny aisles to walk through."

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"We were playing volleyball in the alley when he drove up in this great big yellow Cadillac..." Page 24 Lines 4-5

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The author uses a simile in the book about describing the children " Don't talk to them, Can't you see they smell like a broom" wanting Esperanza not to be friends with the other children on mango street.

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"The nose of that yellow Cadillac was all pleated like an alligator's," (Page 25)

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"but all of the sudden and supprised like a pile of dishes breaking. and other things I cant explain."

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"but all of a sudden and surprised like a pile of dishes breaking."

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Imagery: "Meme has a dog with gray eyes, a sheepdog with two names, one in English and one in Spanish. The dog is big, like a man dressed in a dog suit, and runs the same way its owner does, clumsy and wild and with the limbs flopping all over the place like untied shoes." (Page 21)

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"our house with its feet tucked under like a cat."

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"the boys who do pass by say stupid things like I am in love with those two green apples you call eyes," (Page 27)

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"Tables with their feet upside down and rows and rows of refrigerators with round corners and couches that spin dust in the air when you punch them and a hundred T.V.'s that don't work probably."

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The author talks about the siblings not being the same and the others being the same or described as the same. ""Not the way you can tell with Rachel and Lucy who have the same fat popsicle lips like everybody else in their family" describing the way Rachel and Lucy are similar in that way.

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

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"The dog is big, like a man dressed up in a dog suit,"