Characters
Places
Figurative Language
Quotations
Wild Card!
100
Who died in Esparanza's family?
Her grandfather (her father's father).
100
The city and state where the novel takes place.
What is Chicago, Illinois?
100
What figurative langauge is "her hair smells like bread?"
What is a smilie?
100
Near the beginning of the novel, Esperanza compares herself to a balloon tied to this.
What is "an anchor?"
100
Esparanza gets her first job here.
What is Peter Pan Photo Finishers?
200
The girl who works hard to get an education, even though her father disapproves of it.
Who is Alicia?
200
The country Esperanza's family originally immigrated from.
What is Mexico?
200
The most common reason that an author uses the literary technique, "repetition."
What is for emphasis?
200
Esperanza says that on Mango Street, the people are "all this all around," and are therefore safe.
What is "brown?"
200
Alicia is always tired for this reason?
What are becasue she has to raise her family and go to college?
300
The last name of Esperanza's family.
What is Cordero?
300
Where is Esparanza's house located within her city?
The slums or ghetto.
300
The five senses that imagery appeals to, and the one that is most often given that distinction.
What are sight, sound, smell, touch, and taste...sight being most common?
300
In English, Esparanza's name means this.
What is hope?
300
What Lucy does to the clouds.
Names them or personifies them.
400
The names of Esperanza's two brothers and one sister.
What are Carlos, Kiki, and Nenny?
400
Where is the place Esparanza wants to go for lunch?
The canteen
400
A phrase "my Porch, and my Pillow, and my Pretty, Purple Petunias" uses what figurative language?
What is alliteration.
400
Angela Vergas jumped off a roof and fell like this.
What is a "sugar donut?"
400
Esperanza's mother says she quit school because she didn't have this.
What are nice clothes?
500
Who does Esperanza look up to when dealing with boys?
Who is Sally
500
Where do Esparanza and Nelly find a music box?
Gil's furnature Bought and Sold
500
A technique that is meant to show contrast by placing two very opposite situations right next to each other, or happening simultaneously (challange).
What is juxtaposition?
500
Esperanza first bonds with Lucy and Rachel over this.
What is "a bicycle"?
500
The one, single quality possessed by ALL of the trapped women on Mango Street that prevents them from leaving their situations or getting help.
What is FEAR?
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