Political satire is the rhetorical device used in the excerpt you mentioned.
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I knew then I had to have a house. A real house. One I could point to. But this isn’t it. The house on Mango Street isn’t it. For the time being, Mama says. Temporary, says Papa. But I know how those things go.
<em>Answer:</em><em>Take your coin or piece of jewelry, and place a strong magnet on top see if the magnet sticks to the object by the magnetic pull, or if it slides off onto the ground. If the metal attracts the magnet, you know it must be an alloy mixture and not a precious metal.</em>