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Literary Techniques In The House On Mango Street By Esperanza

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First the author uses the literary technique of a metaphor to illustrate that you have to make the best of what you have. In addition, to the author presents to us that the character didn’t grow up with the a majority of beautiful belongings or surroundings. Provided that is clothes, her house, furniture, or just the neighborhood she lived in. The narrator, Esperanza states “Here there is too much sadness and not enough sky. Butterflies too are few and so are flowers and most things that are beautiful.” (pg 33). The author portrays to us a metaphor. She 's comparing sadness to the sky, which is a reasonably substantial comparison considering the size of the sky. In using that comparison leads the reader to believe that the narrator experiences
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