Eleven by Sandra Cisneros

"Because the way you grow old is kind of like an onion or like the rings inside a tree trunk or like my little wooden dolls that fit one inside the other, each year inside the next one."

This is an example of

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

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"Only today I wish I didn’t have only eleven years rattling inside me like pennies in a tin Band-Aid box."

This is an example of

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

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"Today I wish I was one hundred and two instead of eleven because if I was one hundred and two I’d have known what to say when Mrs. Price put the red sweater on my desk."

This is an example

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

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"It’s maybe a thousand years old and even if it belonged to me I wouldn’t say so." This is an example of

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

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"But when the sick feeling goes away and I open my eyes, the red sweater’s still sitting there like a big red mountain."

This is an example of

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

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"I’ve shoved the red sweater to the tippy-tip corner of my desk and it’s hanging all over the edge like a waterfall, but I don’t care."

This is an example of

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

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"It’s an ugly sweater with red plastic buttons and a collar and sleeves all stretched out like you could use it for a jump rope."

Why does Sandra Cisneros use figurative language to describe the sweater? How does this effect Rachel?

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