Literary Terms
a literary device which briefly and indirectly references a person, place, thing, or idea containing cultural, historical, literary, or political significance to the reader or author.
What is allusion?
The page where all of your sources are listed for reference to your in text citations
What is a works cited page?
a short scene that captures a single moment or a defining detail about a character, idea, or other element of the story.
What is a vignette?
Topic, introduce the quote, quote, and analysis
What is TIQA ?
The large man with a mental handicap. He is incredibly strong, and love to pet soft things.
What is Lennie Smalls?
expressing the same idea in different words to clarify and stress key points.
What is restatement?
Giving credit to an author after using their work (quote or paraphrase). This is done by using the author's last name and either page, paragraph, or line number.
What is an in text citation ?
a strong willed 12 year old girl who matures emotionally and sexually throughout the course of the novel
What is Esperanza?
In The Doll's House, the set of sisters that receive a fancy doll house and make others take turns to view it.
Who are the Burnell sisters?
The small, smart man who takes care of a large man with a mental handicap. He holds onto their work cards and speaks for the other man.
What is George Milton?
describes a character through their thoughts, actions, speech, and dialogue. OR describes the character through their physical description, line of work, or passions and pursuits.
What is direct/indirect characterization?
Has to wear earphones that sporadically send noises through his ears to scatter his thoughts. He is very intelligent.
What is George Bergeron's handicaps?
Esperanza has hope for the future and we see how much she has grown and developed.
How does The House on Mango Street end?
Characters in an isolated setting, decayed settings (or characters), supernatural events, dark/stormy weather
What is gothic literature?
Crooks, Curley's wife, Lennie, Candy
What is characters that are isolated in Of Mice and Men?
a literary device that's the choice of words or style used by the writer in order to convey their message.
What is diction?
Ethos, logos, and pathos
What are the three rhetorical appeals?
Esperanza learns not to depend on men, and to build her own identity and independence
What is the main lesson Esperanza learns on Mango Street?
The space between the panels.
What is a gutter?
The rabbits, the farm George and Lennie fantasize about
What is a symbol in the text?
language that contains implications beyond the meanings of words, and is often used to persuade or convey a specific way of thinking
What is charged language?
freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear
What is the 4 freedoms Roosevelt lists in his speech?
Women stay at home, take care of the children, are isolated, and have little power.
Men go to work, are the strong ones, and are often portrayed as aggressive/ violent, and often times absent
What is how Esperanza views men and women?
A normal setting and characters that experience some extraordinary event (supernatural object or force) and have normal reactions to it.
What is Magical Realism?
The American Dream, Male Friendship, loneliness
What is a theme of the novel?