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Literary Devices In Eleven By Sandra Cisneros

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Eleven by Sandra Cisneros is a story about how a girl named Rachel gets accused of owning the ugly sweater that's been sitting in the coat area for a long time. It shows how the sweater makes Rachel uncomfortable and physically pains her to put it in. The story uses literary devices to show Rachels's complex reaction to the event that happened in her class with the red sweater. One literary device used in simile is when she explains how awful the sweater is “I put one arm through one sleeve of the sweater that smells like cottage cheese”. Cottage cheese is known to be terrible smelling so it further represents how terrible the sweater is and how much Rachel hates it. Another example is how she relates the sweater to feeling uncomfortable
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