Vocabulary
What figurative language gives human traits to animals, plants, objects, and other non-human things ?
Personification
What was Esperanza describing in paragraphs 2, 3, and 4?
her great-grandmother’s life
Break a leg
What is a idiom?
This character used to draw when she had time. She used to speak two languages. She can sing opera. She knows how to fix a T.V. But she doesn't know which subway to train to get downtown.
Experanza's Mother
What is an aspiration ?
the hope of achieving something
a metaphor is comparison that does not use the words like or as. True or False
True
They were wearing shiny Sunday shoes with socks.
It is as hot as the Sahara Desert.
What is a simile?
identify the character
"temporary, says__________. But I know how those things go."
Papa
Who is Madame Butterfly?
Ezperanza's Mother
Ezperanza's great-grandmother
Ezperanza's neighbor down the street
Ezperanza's Mother
a metaphor is a comparison using the words like or as. Ture or False
False
Why did the mother quit school?
She did not have any nice clothes
He is the apple of my eye.
What is a metaphor?
Identify the character
"I inherited her name, but i didn't want to inherit her place by the window"
Ezperanza
What are some examples of themes in a story?
Bravery
Friendship
Patience
a phrase that actually means something different from its literal meaning is called a _____________
Idiom
What would Esperanza most like to be called?
Zeze the X
The moon winks at me every night.
What is personification?
Identify the character
"Can't you see they smell like a broom?"
Cathy
What other names would Esperanza most like to be called?
Cassandra or Alexis or Maritza
What is a figurative language ?
words or phrases that mean more than their dictionary definition; similes and metaphors are two examples of figurative language
Rachel only had five dollars to buy a bicycle from a kid named Tito.
Stop beating around the bush
What is an idiom ?
Unit my __________threw a sack over her head and carried her off. Just like that, as if she were a fancy chandelier.
great-grandfather
What was Ms. Fahnbulleh character's name that lived in New York and dreamed of being a medical doctor?
Lena