LA Jeopardy

Where in the World?

100

Junot Diaz was born in this country: 

Dominican Republic

200

Sandra Cisneros was born in this country: 

United States of America

300

Horacio Quiroga was born in this country: 

Uruguay

400

Pablo Neruda was born in this country: 

Chile

500

Judith Ortiz Cofer was born in this country: 

Puerto Rico

The History

100

The Catholicism of this country heavily influenced the LA Post-Columbian myths and legends: 

Spain

duh

200

These explorers colonized Central and South America and caused LA Literature to move from the oral tradition to written language: 

Conquistadors

300

This historical event sparked the LA Literature Boom: 

The Cuban Revolution (1959)

400

The more negative post-Boom writers of the 1980s pushed back against the LA Boom and kickstarted this literary movement: 

the Boom Backlash

500

Among LA literature's rich social and cultural commentary, five main motifs can be outlined. Name three of them: 

Family Loyalty, Poverty, Immigration, Gender Roles, Social Inequality

The Stories

100

Shadow, Night, and Darkness all symbolized this in Pablo Neruda's "Full Powers" : 

isolation / exile

200

Lola and Mr. Mir share this internal conflict in the children's book Islandborn: 

memory

one wants to remember, and the other wants to forget

300

What does Esperanza want more than anything else? 

A "house" of her own

400

This Post-Columbian LA folktale is a humorous and excellent depiction of the oppressed triumphing over the oppressor: 

The Indian and the 100 Cows

500

DAILY DOUBLE

This is the primary reason Alicia's reality does not line up with her vision of "happily ever after" at the start of "The Feather Pillow" : 

her husband Jordan doesn't show his emotions

Literary Terms

100

These types of LA Folktales include repetitious events:

Cumulative tales

200

This is the geography-based term for people of Spanish New-World heritage, and is a social-cultural term as opposed to a language based one: 

Hispanic

300

This is the term for the attitudes or activities that have no religious or spiritual basis:

Secular

400

This refers to the journalistic narratives told by a personally invested witness, a type of writing commonly found in the LA Post-Boom era: 

Testimonio

500

The House on Mango Street is composed of these special variants of chapters, which are short, descriptive, reflective, and sometimes even punctuation-less: 

Vignettes

Potpourri

100

This is the name for a genre in which realistic narratives are combine with fantastical or dream-like elements:

(also it was a popular LA Boom genre)

Magical realism

200

This elusive green liquid, often paired with a taco (or perhaps a burrito), is what Mr. Sargent wishes would dispense from his kitchen sink instead of water:

Baja Blast

300

Junot Diaz and Walt Whitman share this poetic device in common: 

catalogue

400

Horacio Quiroga and Edgar Allan Poe share this writing style term in common: 

Single Effect

500

Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street and Sherman Alexie's True Diary are both stories of this kind, in which a main character moves from immaturity to maturity: 

Bildungsroman