Lit Devices
My brother was birthed a soft whistle,
Quiet barely stirring the air,
A gentle sound.
Metaphor
"I rather the new Kendrick Lamar-- we should listen to his new album together sometime."
Aman
What holds Xiomara back from going to the poetry club?
Her confirmation class
What is enjambment?
Where the line breaks in a stanza of poetry
"Because although speaking to him is like talking to a scatterbrained saint"
Alliteration
Here, here's the Book of Ruth. Learn yourself some virtue."
Caridad
What plans do Xiomara and Aman have for their first outing together?
Listen to music
What is a stanza?
A "paragraph" in poetic form.
Caridad and Xiomara's friendship is a good example of what literary device? Include a because statement.
Irony because of how different they are-- you wouldn't expect them to be friends
Juxtaposition because they're opposites of each other
Twin
Why does Twin not represent what Xiomara calls a "stereotypical Dominican"?
- He doesn't watch baseball, has a unibrow, wears glasses and doesn't take care of his hair, isn't masculine
Hip hop, and jazz
"I feel too small for all that’s inside me. I want to break myself open like an egg smacked hard against an edge." Finish the sentence: Xiomara uses the lit device _____ to show how she feels that _____.
similie
she has many emotions and ideas inside of her-- she is holding herself back and wants to break free of that
"My whole life I wanted to be a boxer, an athlete. I thought my body was my way out of the terrible circumstances I lived in--instead it was the body of Christ that got me out"
Father Sean
What does Xiomara's name mean?
Warrior
To change where lines break, words are spaced, etc.
What specific thing does Ms. Galiano do that shows her characterization in the beginning of the book?
B. She wants to actually know about her students.
"Don't let yourself get distracted so that you lead yourself and others from la palabra de dios."
Mami
With who does Xiomara usually eat her lunch?
Who is the poet who performed her spoken word poem at Biden's inauguration?
Amanda Gorman