Lit Devices
Vocabulary
Essay Writing
Lit Devices pt. 2
When I was Puerto Rican
200

The students had left the classroom a mess. Pencils everywhere on the ground. Crumpled paper scattered throughout. Desks disorganized.

Visual Imagery

200

Define Sullen

Sullen-ill or tempered.

200

What 2 components do you need for your argument?

Lit Device and Theme

200

The recurring references of food in When I Was Puerto Rican.

Motif

200

What fruit symbolizes home for Negi?

Guavas

400

The fireworks danced in the sky as the July 4th celebration reached its crescendo 

Personification

400

Define Tenuous

very weak

400

What needs to come before you implement your evidence?

Context

400

The pizza tasted like dry cardboard. 

Gustatory

400

What category of literature is "When I Was Puerto Rican"?

Memoir
600

We sat down in Central Park to take in the nature while glancing at the bustling skyscrapers overhead.

Juxtaposition

600

Define relinquish

to surrender, give up.

600

"Negi learns that dignidads are restricting her way of life."

"Social codes can be beneficial, but can also be restrictive towards women"

2nd one

600

The car smelled like fresh lilacs and a hint of lavender. 

olfactory imagery

600

What college does Negi attend?

Harvard

800
My money tall like two giraffes. 

Simile (Metaphor)

800

Define ingenious 

clever, original, inventive.

800

Break down the full ANEZZ cycle for the IA.

ANEZZNEZZC

800

The roaring sounds and griding gears of the train woke up the writer every morning at dawn

auditory

800

Define what a jibaro is

country dweller, simple, redneck

1000

Americans' stance on illegal immigration (ICE). 

Irony

1000

Define multifaceted

Having many sides

1000

Rate this argument 1-4

In "When I was Puerto Rican", Santiago uses juxtaposition to convey how social norms effect women.

2

1000
She felt the hairs on her arm stand up and the goosebumps as she entered a room she felt looked familiar to the one in her dreams.

tactile imagery

1000

Define what a jamona is?

an unmarried woman

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