Characters
Events
Literary Techniques
Quotations
Vocabulary
100
The girl who hates her name and her home.
Who is Esperanza?
100
Esperanza and her friends only wear these once.
What are high heels?
100
This is the literary term that helps Esperanza describe hair as being life-like.
What is personification?
100
Esperanza compares herself to a "red balloon" tied to this.
What is an anchor?
100
The style of storytelling that Cisneros uses is this.
What is a vignette?
200
The young girl who is abused by her father and gets married too young.
Who is Sally?
200
The place where Esperanza is sexually assaulted by a stranger.
What is the carnival? (by the red clowns)
200
The five senses that sensory details appeal to.
What are sight, sound, smell, touch, and taste?
200
Even though Sally says she got married for love, Esperanza said she got married to do this.
What is to escape?
200
Esperanza could use this vocabulary word to describe the men who attack her and the other women.
What is contemptuous?
300
The last name of Esperanza's family.
What is Cordero?
300
The thing that Esperanza shares with Lucy and Rachel that initiates their friendship.
What is a bike?
300
Examples of this are regret, feeling trapped, racial tension, and upbringing.
What is theme?
300
Esperanza doesn't want to go on Sunday drives with her family to avoid looking at this.
What is "what she can't have"?
300
Esperanza could use this word to describe how she feels around men at the end of the novel.
What is wary?
400
The names of one of Esperanza's brothers and her one sister.
Who are Carlos/Kiki and Nenny?
400
The place where Esperanza tries to defend Sally but is then told just to leave.
What is the Monkey Garden?
400
Esperanza uses this device when she talks about being a "red balloon."
What is a metaphor?
400
Esperanza says her mother's hair is like this.
What is "the smell of warm bread"?
400
Esperanza could use this vocabulary word to describe when she uses good judgment.
What is judicious?
500
The names of three women who feel trapped within their homes.
Who are Esperanza, Esperanza's mother, Esperanza's grandmother, Sally, Minerva, Rafaela, Mamacita? (any three)
500
The thing that Esperanza regretted most about eating in the canteen because she always disliked it.
What is being yelled at by a nun?
500
This technique is used frequently by Esperanza, especially when she compares two things using the word "like."
What is a simile?
500
Esperanza said that this is her deepest desire.
What is a "house of her own"?
500
Esperanza could use this vocabulary word to describe her mother because she is always careful to do things correctly.
What is scrupulous?
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