tone
This is the literary device definition of "tone".
What is how the author/narrator feels about the subject?
This is a word that means the way a sentence is built.
What is syntax?
What is personification?
What is disappointment?
This is the definition of the word "dwarfed".
What is made to feel smaller?
What is ashamed, sad, or like "nothing"?
This is the example of syntax shows emphasis by using the same word again and again.
The vignette structure of The House on Mango Street symbolizes the way that these parts of someone's past are often only fragments of the whole story.
What are memories?
This is what the two phrases "It is the Spanish number nine. A muddy color." tell readers about Esperanza's opinion of her name.
What is discomfort, or dislike?
This is what the verb "quiver" means.
What is to gently shake?
What is a feminist?
"Keep, keep, keep trees say when I sleep. They teach," is an example of repetition used to emphasise this idea to Esperanza.
What is the trees emphasise to Esperanza to keep holding on to her heritage?
Vignettes, the narrative structure from The House on Mango Street are often compared to these quick pictures.
What are snapshots?
This is what the tone of resilience tell us when Esperanza talks about how the trees "Keep, Keep, Keep."
What is Esperanza will not give up, or will not let go?
These are words that allow readers to understand that following sentence describes delicacy:
The ballerina quivered as she held her graceful pose.
What are context clues?
"But the house on Mango Street is not how they told it at all. It's small and red with tight steps in front and windows so small you'd think they were holding their breath."
What is confined, suffocated, or like they can't breathe?
The trees in The House on Mango Street are like barriers to Esperanza because they show her how to hold this secret strength.
What is resilience?
This is a literary element that is the heart of a story and is often explained by various symbolism throughout the text.
What is theme?
This is why Esperanza wants to "baptize" herself with a new name.
What is because her name doesn't fit her true self?
This is a synonym for the word "transiently" in regard to time.
What is temporarily?
This is the tone of the following part from The House on Mango Street:
"They are the only ones who understand me."
What is lonely?
This is the type of narrative used in The House on Mango Street that can be compared to snapshots.
What are vignettes?
"In English my name means hope. In Spanish it means too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting."
What is tension between living in the US as a Mexican American, or a fight between the English and Spanish side of Esperanza?
This theme is symbolized through the way that Esperanza tries to fit in throughout the stories from The House on Mango Street.
What is struggle with identity?
Esperanza says she escaped with only one or two insults; this word describes the vast amount of insults she could have gotten.
What is more?