Vocabulary
Poetry
Romeo & Juliet
House on Mango St.
Random
100
What does the word pinnacle mean?
What is a high peak or point?
100
Poetry is made up of these three aspects.
What is diction, emotional associations & musicality?
100
This is the character who tells Capulet that he is very interested in dating Juliet.
What is Paris?
100
True or False. The house on Mango St. is Esperanza's dream house.
What is false?
100
This is the author of "The House on Mango Street?"
Who is Sandra Cisneros?
200
What does the word ardent mean?
What is very enthusiastic, impassioned?
200
These are the three main types of poetry.
What is lyric, narrative & dramatic?
200
This is the character who kills Mercutio.
Who is Tybalt?
200
This is the character that Esperanza is referring to when she says: "Esperanza. I have inherited her name, but I don't want to inherit her place by the window."
What is her grandmother?
200
"Slap!" This is an example of what kind of figurative language?
What is onomatopoeia?
300
What does corrosive mean?
What is eating away gradually, acid like; bitterly sarcastic?
300
This is the definition of meter.
What is rhythmic patterns?
300
This is how Romeo knows about the masquerade party.
What is Peter asks him to read the invitation list?
300
This is what the tree in Meme Ortiz's yard symbolizes.
What is beauty, growth & decay?
300
"He struck a streak of bad luck." - This is an example of what kind of sound device?
What is consonance?
400
What does commodious mean?
What is roomy, spacious?
400
This is the definition of figurative language.
What is comparing two things; language that is not meant to be interpreted literally?
400
This is what happens to Paris.
What is he is killed at Juliet's grave by Romeo?
400
This is what comparing herself to a ballon tied to an anchor suggests.
What is Esperanza is free but held back by her family?
400
This is the author who wrote "Funny it seems, but by keeping its dreams, / it learned to breathe fresh air."
Who is Tupac Shakur?
500
What does limpid mean?
What is clear, transparent; readily understood?
500
This is the definition of consonance.
What is the repetition of final consonant sounds in stressed syllables w/ diff. vowel sounds?
500
This is the character who goes to tell Romeo in Mantua about Juliet's death.
Who is Balthazar?
500
For how much money does Esperanza and her two friends buy the bicycle?
What is $15?
500
These are the three types of figurative language.
What is simile, metaphor & personification?
M
e
n
u