What is the same beginning sound in a series of words
100
The beach is as smooth as glass.
What is a simile
100
To entertain.
What is the purpose of alliteration?
100
The main idea.
What is the most important, big idea of a reading passage?
100
The girl with eyes like Egypt. The boys think she is beautiful because her hair is shiny black. Her father beats her. She like to kiss the boys in the monkey garden. She gets married young and is controlled by her husband.
Who is Sally?
200
Extreme Exageration
What is hyperbole
200
I fell in the rocks and they filled my socks.
What is rhyme?
200
To describe.
What is the purpose of personification?
200
A vignette
What is a brief literary description?
200
She wears short skirts and says "What matters is for the boys to see us and for us to see them." She plans to marry her boyfriend in Puerto Rico but it is a secret .She met Gerado at a dance and was the last one to see him alive and says "What does it matter?"
Who is Marin?
300
Metaphor
What is comparing to unlike things without using like or as
300
My friend Sally is as sweet as candy.
What is a simile?
300
to describe
What is the purpose of a metaphor?
300
Identity.
What is who you are, where you live, and .....?
300
Not a flat. Not an apartment in back. Not a man's house. It has a porch with pretty purple petunias. It is on a hill like the ones with gardens where papa works.
What is Esperanza's dream house?
400
Personification
What is human characteristics given to an object or anima
400
This winter weather froze the entire world.
What is hyberbole?
400
To describe.
What is the purpose of a simile?
400
I feel like nothing when the nun said "You live there?!". I don't belong here with my skinny neck and pointy elbows. I am too sad and too skinny. I am ugly. I am the one nobody comes for.
How does Esperanza feels about herself?
500
Simile
What is comparing 2 unlike things using like or as
500
School, school, school is always on my mind.
What is repetition?
500
To emphasize or explain
What is the purpose of repetition?
500
Am I ready? I want to be independent and get a job but I get confused about what is expected. There's boys and kissing but that makes me angry. Growing up makes me scared. I try to hide from it.