Question

*ABUELITO WHO* (CommonLit text)

Answer 1

Answer:

Refer below.

Explanation:

The author use the figurative language of "coins" and "rain" in both the opening and closing lines of the poem (Line 1 and Lines 20-21) to help develop the poem's meaning so as to portray her memories about her granddad. Cisneros has utilized comparison, which is a hyperbole, all through the sonnet. The primary capacity of metaphor is to make a correlation with show the similitudes between two unique things. Besides, likeness is generally joined by words, for example, "as" and "like". In the content, there are two instances of this saying: "Abuelito who throws coins like rain" (line 1)/"is the rain on the room that falls like coins" (line 21). Likeness has helped the creator build up the importance of the sonnet, that is, to describe about specific recollections she has of her granddad or "abuelito", a warm term for a granddad in Spanish. For example, Cisneros utilized allegorical language and metaphor in line 1 to portray how her granddad played with her creation coins fall like raindrops from above.