Literary Terms
A short novel.
What is a novella?
The city and state where Mango Street is located.
What is Chicago, Illinois?
Esperanza's younger sister's name.
What is Nenny?
The amount of people in Esperanza's family.
What is six?
What are feet?
A short, well-written sketch or descriptive scene which involves a mood/tone and a theme.
What is a vignette?
The amount of bedrooms their house on Mango Street has.
What is one?
Esperanza's childhood friends with whom she co-owns a bike.
Who are Lucy and Rachel?
The last name of Esperanza's family.
What is Cordero?
The sandwich Esperanza ate when she brought her lunch to school.
What is a rice sandwich?
A common thread or repeated idea that is incorporated throughout a literary work that creates the message
What is theme?
The character who is described as too beautiful and exotic for Mango Street.
Who is Sally?
The "wild horse of a woman" who "looked out the window her whole life".
Who is Esperanza's great-grandmother, also named Esperanza?
The place where Esperanza has her first job.
What is Peter Pan Photo Finishers (photo developing store)?
Who is her grandfather?
The manner of expression of a particular writer produced by: choice of words, sentence structures, use of literary devices, rhythm, and other elements of composition
What is style?
The local hangout for children and the closest thing they have to a playground.
What is the monkey garden?
The girl who works hard to get an education, even though her father disapproves of it.
Who is Alicia?
When Esperanza has her fortune told by Elenita, she is told that some time in her future, she will have this.
What is "home in the heart"?
When she gets a house of her own, who or what Esperanza says she would let sleep in her attic
What is "bums"?
The German word for a "coming of age" story.
What is a bildungsroman?
What the women on Mango Street do to try and escape their lives or Mango Street.
What is getting married?
Something Esperanza's mother cannot do and what that symbolizes for her.
What is hope?
The thing that Esperanza wishes for above all else.
What is a home?