Characters
The woman who could not speak English and who cried when her son sang a Pepsi soda jingle
Who is Mamacita?
A story in which a character goes through a trauma or experience that forces maturity growth.
What is a coming-of-age story or a bildungsroman?
The one who will have it easy because she is beautiful.
Who is Nenny?
The study of words.
What is etymology?
The girl who has a fiance in Puerto Rico, who loves dancing, and who saw Geraldo die.
Who is Marin?
The children who were too many and too unruly for people to watch
Who are the Vargas children?
The girl who kissed boys in the Monkey Garden.
Who is Sally?
A vignette.
What is a short, pictorial story?
Personification is something a figurative speech element that gives human qualities to the nonhuman. Is that what you did?
The name Esperanza said Mamacita should have had.
What is Mamasota?
The setting together of opposites to provide some meaning.
What is a juxtaposition?
The girls who are the four skinny trees.
Who are Rachel, Lucy, Nenny, and Esperanza?
The difference between a metaphor and a simile. Come up with originals.
What is a metaphor asserts that one thing is the other while a simile asserts that one thing is "like" or "as" another?
Did you come up with originals?
The three sisters are an example of this literary device.
What is an allusion?
The relative who was confined to a bed.
Who is Aunt Lupe?
Open your books to p. 58. Review over the vignette "Born Bad." Come up with theme sentence.
Answers vary.
Nenny's full name.
Who is Magdalena?
DAILY DOUBLE
Make bets before you get to see the prompt.
The woman who leans out the window and dreams of being Rapunzel.
DOUBLE BONUS: Of what literary term is this an example?
Louie's cousin gets arrested for stealing a car and his other cousin is ___________.
Who is Marin?
The woman who wanted to leave town because the place was going to the dumps.
A couple of recurring themes from House on Mango Street.
What are houses and names?
The girl who asked to buy a music box that wasn't for sale.
Who is Nenny?
Make bets before you see the prompt.
The character who wakes up early to make food for siblings and study.
Who is Alicia?