literary devices
define personification and imagery
What is giving human-like qualities to something non-human? What are image-like descriptions?
what is the scientist's name
who is the green meany?
These are the two languages used in the poem.
What are Spanish and English?
what are the names of the contestant and announcer in The Toxic Donut
Kim and Ron
define idiom and hyperbole
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!
what story is it based on (title + author)
what is The Lottery by Shirley Jackson?
After vegetation started growing under the freeway, these types of people, referred to in Spanish, harvested the garden.
Who are viejitas?
explain the difference between simile and metaphor
define irony and oxymoron
What is expressions that mean the opposite? What is a figure of speech in which contradictory terms appear in conjunction?
what are the scientist's two raps
what are the Evils of Science and Wonders of Science?
These types of flowers were found growing in "las casitas" before the freeway was constructed.
What are red geraniums and roses?
what are the three types of trees that grow under the freeway
cherry, apricot, walnut
define allusion and allegory
What is a reference to another known piece of text? What is a hidden meaning?
what is the toxic donut carried in (color + thing)
what is a white paper sack?
This is the place that was mentioned to be near las casitas
What is the canning factory?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!
what does the narrator of Freeway 280 describe her old neighborhood as smelling like (back when she wanted to escape it)
"tomatoes burning on swing shift in the greasy summer air"
define foil and metonymy
what are two contrasting characters? what is replacing a word for a related object?
what time will Kim eat the donut
When is 9:30?
This simile was used to describe the highway that was built over las casitas.
What is "a raised scar?"
define chiasmus, epigraph, and anaphora
what is crisscrossing the order of a sentence? what is a quote at a beginning of a chapter? what is repeating the first word of a sentence?