Form and Figures
Basic Bits
Weeping Women
Tantalizing Topics
Evolving Esperanza
100
A brief evocative description, account, or episode.
What is a vignette?
100
The setting of the novel.
What is Mango Street OR Chicago?
100
The vignette in which Esperanza is assaulted.
What is Red Clowns OR The First Job?
100
Home
What is a central topic?
100
Esperanza's feelings about her house in the first vignette.
What is shame?
200
A comparison using like or as.
What is a simile?
200
The protagonist of the story.
Who is Esperanza?
200
A girl who is afraid of mice and her father.
Who is Alicia?
200

When Esperanza has her fortune told by Elenita, she is told that some time in her future, she will have this.

What is "a home in the heart?"

200
Esperanza's crush.
Who is Sire?
300
A comparison between two unlike things.
What is a metaphor?
300
Self vs. Self and Self vs. Society
What is the conflict?
300
A girl who has to kiss boys to get her keys back.
Who is Sally?
300

The three sisters tell Esperanza she must remember this.

What is "to come back for the others?"

300
The body part that Esperanza hopes to get soon.
What are hips?
400
The literary device that gives human qualities to non-human objects.
What is personification?
400
The person who stole a car.
Who is Louie's other Cousin?
400
The woman that writes poems with Esperanza.
Who is Minerva?
400

Esperanza refuses to go on Sunday drives with her family to see the big houses on the hill, because she says she's tired of looking at this.

What is "what she can't have?"

400

How Esperanza describes her home at the end of the novel.

What is "sad, red house" OR "the house I belong but do not belong to."

500
An item or object that represents something else.
What is a symbol?
500
A woman at the window
Who is Sally, Rafaela, OR the Great-Grandmother?
500
Esperanza calls her Great-Grandmother this.
What is a" horse woman?"
500

Esperanza discusses how people make assumptions about her and her neighbors in this vignette because of their race and economic status (how much money they have).

What is "Those Who Don't"?

500

The people who Esperanza will come back for.

What is "for those who cannot out?"

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