Mango Street Grab Bag
Who Am I?
Literary Terms
Son of Grab Bag
Revenge of Grab Bag
100
The novel is set in this city.
What is Chicago?
100
This character attends college because she doesn't want "to spend her whole life in a factory or behind a rolling pin."
Who is Alicia?
100
The events and action of a story.
What is plot?
100
He "dropped from the sky like a sugar donut, just like a falling star" is an example of this figure of speech.
What is a simile?
100
He doesn't have a name, but he steals a Cadillac, which makes an impression on the neighborhood kids.
Who is Louie's other cousin?
200
The novel belongs to this literary genre.
What is fiction.
200
Has a boyfriend in Puerto Rico that she'd like to marry, but still hopes to meet her Prince Charming on the subway.
Who is Marin?
200
Something that on the surface is its literal self but which also has another meaning or even several meanings.
What is a symbol?
200
The old man cons Esperanza into this on her first day of work.
What is a kiss?
200
This is where Esperanza "wanted to die and where [she] tried one day…"
What is the Monkey Garden?
300
She wrote The House on Mango Street.
Who is Sandra Cisneros?
300
She is "the girl with eyes like Egypt."
Who is Sally?
300
A French word that means, literally, "little vine."
What is a vignette?
300
On the same day that Esperanza and her friends make fun of her, she dies.
Who is Aunt Lupe?
300
Esperanza's first sexual experience, a rape, happens here.
What is the carnival?
400
The Cordero family's ethnicity.
What is Mexican?
400
Moved into Cathy's house after she left; has two names, as does his sheepdog.
Who is Meme Ortiz
400
The mood (of Esperanza's mother) in “A Smart Cookie."
What is regretful?
400
Esperanza becomes curious about what he does with his girlfriend.
Who is Sire?
400
Two neighborhood girls, sisters, who bond with Esperanza over the purchase of a bike.
Who are Rachel and Lucy?
500
Loomis, Keeler, and Paulina.
What are Esperanza's previous addresses?
500
They are "too many and too much…they are without respect for all things living, including themselves."
Who are the Vargas kids?
500
Arranging the stories of Esperanza's rape and Sally's marriage back-to-back is an example of this literary device.
What is juxtaposition?
500
They tell Esperanza to make a wish; one of them seems to know what she wishes for.
Who are the three sisters?
500
In English it means "hope." In Spanish it means "too many letters."
What is Esperanza's name?
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