Literary Terms
This is a recurring idea.
What is a motif?
This is the name of the protagonist in the book.
This means to compare two unlike things using 'like' or 'as?'
What is a simile?
This is what you call the main character in a story.
What is a protagonist?
This word is ALWAYS capitalized.
What is 'I'?
Setting includes place and this.
What is time?
Esperanza lives on this street.
What is Mango Street?
This is a comparison between two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as.'
What is a metaphor?
This is what you call the villain in a story.
What is an antagonist?
This punctuation is called this. " "
What are quotation marks?
This high point of a plot chart is called this.
What is a climax?
Esperanza is so unhappy about living on Mango Street because of this.
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"What? What? What?" is an example of this.
What is repetition?
This is who tells the story in a novel to the reader.
Who is the narrator?
This is what you call two or more sentences without punctuation.
What is a run-on sentence?
This is what you call 2 characters speaking in a story.
What is dialogue?
Esperanza wishes for this at the novel's end.
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These are examples of what poetic device? Zap, Zoom Buzz.
What is onomatopoeia?
This is what you call an image put into your mind by an author that affects at least 1 of the senses.
What is imagery?
Susie cried, "How could you?" is an example of this.
What is a dialogue tag?
The message of a story that the author is trying to convey is called this.
What is a theme?
A motif found in the novel is this.
Answers may vary.
Pretty purple petunias is an example of this.
What is alliteration?
Mixing of the senses is called this. Example: Seeing noise.
What is synesthesia?
The period at the end of a sentence that ends with a quotation mark goes specifically here.