ESPERANZA FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

“The mountains looked like lion’s paws resting at the edge of the ridge”

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Then, like a caterpillar, she slowly inched flat next to him, their faces looking at each other.

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The beat rushing in her ears. Shoomp, shoomp, shoomp.

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

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“Mama, my finger. An angry thorn stabbed me,” said Esperanza.

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“But now that she was a young woman, she understood that Miguel was the housekeeper’s son and she was the ranch owner’s daughter and between them ran a deep river.”

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Esperanza thought it was because they looked like two underfed billy goats.

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For the thousandth time, she wiped the tears that slipped down her face,.........”

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“..............but this time they were angry tears.”

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The lawyer looked uncomfortable and began gathering documents. “Vultures!” said Abuelita.

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