Who does it describe?
This character said the only word he or she knew when arriving in the country was "hamandeggs."
Who is Esperanza's father?
These things are often symbolic and part of a motif related to growing up
What are shoes?
The device present in this excerpt: "I could've been somebody, you know? ... She has lived in this city her whole life. She can speak two languages. She can sing an opera. She knows how to fix a T.V."
What is anaphora?
Rafaela is compared to this fairy tale character.
Who is Rapunzel?
This character is afraid to leave the house without her mother's approval.
Who is Ruthie?
This character "plays the Spanish radio show and sings all the homesick songs about her country in a voice that sounds like a seagull."
Who is Mamacita?
This is a symbol for "another way to be."
What is a house?
These are THREE women who develop the motif of the woman in the window.
Who are Esperanza's great grandmother, Mamacita, and Rafaela?
The vignette about this woman included an allusion to a nursery rhyme.
Who is Rosa Vargas?
The "ball and chain" in "Beautiful and Cruel" is a reference to this.
What is something that limits one's freedom?
This character writes poems on tiny pieces of paper and folds them over and over again.
Who is Minerva?
These are symbolic of affluent people who don't care about the troubles of the less fortunate.
Who are the people who live on hills?
The device and character it develops:
"Everything is waiting to explode like Christmas."
What is a simile and who is Esperanza ?
When Esperanza provides this description containing an allusion to a fairy tale" "Today we are Cinderella."
What is when Esperanza and her friends wear high-heeled shoes?
The devices (identify at least two) used to describe this character:"her barefoot baby toenails all painted pale, pale pink like little pink seashells and she smells pink like babies do."
What are (choose from: visual imagery, olfactory imagery, simile, alliteration) and who is Lois?
This repetition emphasizes a crisis point for this character: "You're not my daughter, you're not my daughter."
Who is Sally?
This thing eventually happens to the garden where Esperanza plays with her friends. (You must give one of two possible things.)
What is it becomes overgrown with weeds and littered with abandoned cars.
The device emphasized in italics: "but I have decided not to grow up tame like the others who lay their necks on the threshold waiting for the ball and chain."
What is assonance?
The reason why Esperanza compares Rafaela to a specific fairy tale character.
What is because she wants long hair to escape?
The full title of this vignette is an example of this device: "There Was an Old Woman She Had So Many Children She Didn't Know What to Do."
What is an allusion?
This character quit school because she didn't have nice clothes and was ashamed.
Who is Esperanza's mother?
This is a symbol for innocence and then the loss of it.
What is the Monkey Garden?
Three examples of this device is present in the following passage:"Poke a stick in the sandy soil and a few blue-skinned beetles would appear, an avenue of ants, so many crusty lady bugs."
What is alliteration?
This allusion refers to a character Esperanza's mother calls a fool.
Who is Madame Butterfly?
The stories of these two characters emphasize the tragic CYCLE of abuse.
Who are Minerva and Sally?