Vocabulary
This is to state something positively, so as to remove any doubt.
What is to assure?
This is the time and place of a story.
What is the setting?
This is when an author gives human-like qualities to an object
What is personification?
These are the names of the characters in the story.
Who are Mayor, Enrique, Celia and Rafael?
This is the narrator's father's favorite food.
What is a fig?
This is to think or talk about past experiences.
What is to reminisce?
What is a character?
This is a comparison using like or as
What is a simile?
This is where the Toro family goes during the holidays in 2001.
Where is the beach?
This is where the narrator's father finally grows a fig tree.
Where is Dallas Texas?
This is a behavior characterized by exaggerated emotions.
What is melodrama?
This is the lesson a character learns in a story.
What is a theme?
This is a comparison not using like or as
What is a metaphor?
This is a reason why the Toro family would have returned to Panama.
What is Rafael's high school reunion?
OR
What is Celia's sister's wedding?
This is how the narrator feels after trying a dried fig.
What is unimpressed? (or similar answers determined by Mr. Einhorn).
This is to come together for a purpose.
What is to convene?
This is the series of events in a story.
What is a plot?
This is a group of lines in a poem separated by purpose
What is a stanza?
This is what Rafael was called by his high school classmate.
What is a gringo?
This is how the stanzas in the story are broken up.
What are the stages of life as the narrator grows up?
This is to cause serious damage or destruction.
What is to ravage?
These are the five stages of a plot.
What are the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution?
This is a group of similar sounds in a poem
What is alliteration?
This is the theme of The Book of Unknown Americans.
What is home is where the heart is?
This is the theme of My Father and the Fig Tree.
What is home isn't just a place, it's a feeling.