In the short story by Sandra Cisneros entitled “Eleven” reveals the frustration a girl who just turned eleven. Literary techniques used by Cisneros characterized Rachel and her frustration of turning eleven and in her classroom. Rachel describes in paragraphs two and three the contrast between ages eleven, ten, five and three. She simply explains how your your mood changes and just doesn’t happen when you’re eleven but sometimes you have to cry like three year old when problems or things become hard in life and Rachel uses her mom as a perfect example. Another device used by the author was sensory image. For example, “ I’m crying like I’m three in front of everybody. I put my head down on the desk and bury my face in my stupid-clown sweater
