Figurative Language
The lesson or message an author is trying to convey
Theme
The name of the city in which Esperanza lives.
Chicago
The name of Esperanza's younger sister.
Nenny
The character who does not speak English
Mamacita
Explain the significance of the quote: "I am tired of looking at what we can't have."
Esperanza wants to have more-- a better house, a better life.
A direct comparison between two unlike ideas using the words like or as.
Simile
The meaning of Esperanza's name in Spanish.
- Too many letters
- Sadness
- Waiting
Where Esperanza's family is from.
Mexico
The character who is described as beautiful and too exotic for Mango Street
Sally
Explain the significance of the quote: "When you leave you must remember to come back for the others."
Esperanza is told that she has a responsibility to remember where she came from in order to help those who can't leave.
Gives a non-human object human characteristics.
Personification
What Esperanza wishes for above all else
A house
The person in Esperanza's family who dies
The character who tried to fly.
Angel Vargas
Explain the significance of the quote: "She says she is in love, but I think she did it to escape."
Sally relied on a man to get her out of her abusive relationship with her dad.
Language and description that appeals to our five senses.
Imagery
When she gets a house of her own, who or what Esperanza says she would let sleep in her attic.
What was in Esperanza's sandwich the day she ate in the canteen at school.
Rice
How the girls in Esperanza's neighborhood often try to escape their lives, or escape Mango Street.
Get married/ find a man
Explain the significance of the quote: " I have begun my own quiet war."
Esperanza vows to rebel against the role women have in her community.
An exaggerated claim that emphasizes a point.
Hyperbole
What the old ladies at Rachel and Lucy's sibling's funeral tell Esperanza she must do.
She must return to Mango Street
The names of ALL of Esperanza's immediate family.
Papa, Mama, Carlos, Kiki, and Nenny
Esperanza's older friend who values education because she "doesn't want to spend her whole life in a factory or behind a rolling pin"
Alicia
What is ONE lesson Esperanza learns by the end of the novel?
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