How The Author Use Metaphors In Abuelito Who Figurative Language

Janessa Harrison #7. 5/10/18

ELA. Finals essay task 1

Abuelito Who by Sandra Cisneros

In Abuelito Who there is a lot of figurative language that we use to tell what we are reading. The impact of this figurative language in Abuelito Who is to figure out the meaning of the words. The meaning of figurative language is language that uses words

Next we have metaphors in the story Abuelito Who , metaphors are word or phrases that applies to an object or action that is not literally. The metaphors in the story Abuelito Who are “coins like rain”, “who is dough and feathers” I can tell these are metaphors because the coin are not rain and he is not dough and feathers. We use metaphors to help explain feels, textures, and more because what are words without feelings added in. The phrase “ is a doorknob tied to a sour stick” stands as a metaphor, in other words the doorknob can’t be tied to a sour stick it is not literally. We can see how these phases or words can have an a affect on the meaning or feelings of a word. Furthermore we have personification in the story Abuelito Who which tells us what nonhuman thing has human ability. First of all personification means a nonhuman animal or noun has human traits in away that means they act like a human. Second, personification is use to bring life to the characters and the story, and to

The impact of this figurative language in Abuelito Who is to figure out the meaning of the words. The meaning of figurative language is language that uses words or expressions with a meaning. There are similes that we read in the story that compare one thing with another of a different kind. Some of these similes are “whose little eyes are string” this is a simile because eyes cannot be string, “ who use to laugh like the letter k” which means the letter k was his laugh. Next we have metaphors in the story Abuelito Who , metaphors are word or phrases that applies to an object or action that is not literally. The metaphors in the story Abuelito Who are “coins like rain”, “who is dough and feathers” I can tell these are metaphors because the coin are not rain and he is not dough and feathers. We use metaphors to help explain feels, textures, and more because what are words without feelings added in. The phrase “ is a doorknob tied to a sour stick” stands as a metaphor, in other words the doorknob can’t be tied to a sour stick it is not literally. We can see how these phases or words can have an a affect on the meaning or feelings of a word. Furthermore we have personification in the story Abuelito Who which tells us what nonhuman thing has human ability. First of all personification means a nonhuman animal or noun has human traits in