House on mango street
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which literary device is used in the excerpt below taken from the "laughter" vignette?
"not the way you can tell with rachel and lucy who have the same fat popsicle lips like everybody else in their family. but me and nenny, we are more alike than you would know. our laughter for example. not the shy ice cream bells' giggle of rachel and lucy's family, but all of a sudden and surprised like a pile of dishes breaking."

select one:
a. imagery
b. hyperbole
c. personification
d. onomatopoeia

Read this excerpt from we’ve got a job: the 1963 children’s march. then, in 1958, when he was nine, his mother got a job as a dental assistant – and a raise. at about the same time, wash got a job, too. six days a week for eight years, he woke up by four o'clock in the morning to deliver milk. by the time he got to school each day, he'd already put in almost half a day's work. how does this excerpt readers make a personal connection to the story? by connecting readers to his mother’s medical training by connecting readers to the milk-delivery business by connecting readers to wash’s academic success by connecting readers to wash’s daily work routine