Structure
Meaning
Imagery
Language
100
The genre of The Woman Warrior
What is creative non-fiction
100
American people that Maxine can't relate to very well
What is a ghost?
100
The color that Maxine drew all of her paintings with during the period that she was most silent
What is black?
100
the stories that Brave Orchid tells Maxine throughout her childhood as lessons and warnings
What is a talk story?
200
Maxine's collection of stories that heppened in her life
What is a memoir?
200
what Maxine is forced to adjust to in America
What is American culture (way of life, lifestyle, etc.)?
200
What the druggist ghosts gave to all the kids
What is candy?
200
What Maxine had most trouble with in school
What is English (speech, speaking, talking, etc.)?
300
a characteristic of creative nonfiction that is shown through Maxine's journey for an identity
What is timelessness?
300
A powerful theme throughout the chapter that prevented Maxine from fitting in and doing well at school
What is silence?
300
These children were "noisy and tough"
What are Japanese?
300
What Brave Orchid said that American children and Maxine had none of
What are memories?
400
Maxine's story told from a first person point of view
What is a narrative?
400
The act that Maxine was proud that her mother had comitted upon her
What is tongue cutting?
400
Maxine's self declared speaking personality as a child after she had found a voice
What is American-feminine?
400
Maxine's aunt killing her daughter to save her daughter
What is a paradox?
500
Maxine's trouble with cultural confusion and finding her voice
What is deeper subject?
500
The ghost that Brave Orchid believed had cursed Maxine and her family
What is the druggist?
500
What Maxine's grandmother made the family attend
What is the theater?
500
what Maxine Hong Kingston shows through powerful language and use of strong imagery
What is craft of writing?
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