Figurative Language Simile: "I kept seeing that motherhouse up in the mountains, its roof caving in, its walls crumbling like a foolish house built on sand" (Alvarez 168). Here Alvarez is comparing how easily the house was destroyed. By comparing the house to sand because the house coming down, The walls were crumbling in and roof was caving in. Sand can be easily destroyed by anything, thats why she compared the house to sand.

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