Literary Terms
What is theme?
What is the authors message OR What is the lesson of the story
Where is Esperanza from?
What is Mexico?
What is the author’s name?
What is Sandra Cisneros
What is one of the themes of “The House on Mango Street”?
What is centers on identity, dreams, and socioeconomic struggle
What is symbolism?
What is the idea that things represent other things
Where does Esperanza live now?
What is Mango St., Chicago, IL?
Where was the author born?
What is Chicago?
What is the theme of “My Name”?
What is identity, heritage, and self-perception.
What is juxtaposition?
What is the arrangement of two or more ideas, characters, actions, settings, phrases, or words side-by-side or in similar narrative moments
What does Esperanza mean in Spanish?
What is sadness and waiting?
What is the author’s known style of writing?
What is Vignettes and focus on marginalized people
What is the theme of “Hips”?
What is coming of age, femininity, and the physical and social changes of growing up.
What is a bildungsroman?
What is a novel depicting someone's growth from childhood to maturity
What is one symbol of Esperanza’s ‘deep-rooted’ culture?
What is her name, her house, her family's hair
To whom is The House on Mango Street dedicated?
What is "A Las Mujeres" or To the Women
What is the theme of “Marin”?
What is hope, dreams, and the limitations placed on women, especially within a patriarchal and socioeconomic context.
What is social commentary?
What is the act of expressing an opinion on the nature of society
What is one role of women in Latino society as shown in the novel?
What is housekeeper, caretaker, etc.
What is one award that the author has won?
What is the American Book Award, the MacArthur Fellowship, and the National Medal of Arts.
What are the three themes repeated throughout the end of the novel?
Belongingness