Esperanza
Family
Friends
Mango Street
Figurative Language
100

The translation of the protagonist's name, Esperanza.

What is Hope

100
Esperanza's little sister
What is Nenny
100
Esperanza's best friends
What is Rachel and Lucy
100
What the Vargas kids don't have.
What is a father
100

This is when words sound like their meanings

What is onomatopoeia

200
What Esperanza wishes for above all else
What is a house
200
The names of each person in Esperanza's family
What is Papa, Mama, Carlos, Kiki, Esperanza and Nenny
200
What Rachel, Lucy, and Esperanza purchased together
What is a bike
200
The character who does not speak English
What is Mamacita
200

Comparing two things using like or as

What is simile

300
Esperanza's first job
What is Peter Pan's Photo Finishers
300
Where Esperanza's family is from
What is Mexico
300
What hand-me-down items Esperanza and her friends receive from a neighbor
What is high-heeled shoes
300

What theme does the Vignette Hips appeal to?

What is growing up

300

Giving non-human things, human-like qualities

What is personification

400
When she gets a house of her own, who or what Esperanza says she would let sleep in her attic
What is bums
400
What was in Esperanza's sandwich the day she ate in the canteen at school
What is rice
400
A place that becomes a symbol of magic and freedom for the neighborhood children
What is the Monkey Garden
400
How the girls in Esperanza's neighborhood often try to escape their lives, or escape Mango Street.
What is getting married
400

My hands were icicles because the cold weather is an example of what type of figure of speech? 



What is a metaphor?

500
What the old ladies at Rachel and Lucy's sibling's funeral tell Esperanza she must do.
What is return to Mango Street to help those who cannot leave
500
Who Esperanza's mother is referring to when she says "Look at my "comodres"
What is her female friends
500

Esperanza's older friend who values education because she "doesn't want to spend her whole life in a factory or behind a rolling pin"

Who is Alicia?

500
Two characters that are imprisoned by the men in their lives.
What is Sally and Rafaela
500

Descriptive language that appeals to the five senses

What is sensory language?

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