MLA Format
When doing in text citations, this always goes after the closing parentheses.
what is a period?
The main character of the book. A respected man in his village. Unemotional and short tempered.
Who is Okonkwo?
They are short stories that focus on 1 or 2 details. The House on Mango Street is a collection of them.
What are vignettes?
These are the 4 short stories we read at the beginning of the year.
What are The Seventh Man, Lather and Nothing Else, Like the Sun, and Marriage is a Private affair?
MLA format does not include any of this.
what is first/second person?
what are contractions?
The child given to Umuofia to avoid war. Killed by Okonkwo
Who is Ikemefuna?
This is Esperanza's little sister, who Esperanza is tasked with looking after since she is the next oldest.
Who is Nenny?
What is a big wave/tsunami?
MLA format should be typed with these 3 settings
what are Times New Roman, size 12 font/12 point font, double line spacing?
After accidentally killing a member of the village, Okonkwo and his family are forced to do this for 7 years.
what is exile?
what is flee?
Esperanza does not like her given name, this is who she would rather have been named
who is Zeze the X
what is irony?
An MLA heading should include these things
what are name, teacher, course, and due date?
This is a spirit that repeatedly enters a mother's womb to either be miscarried or die at a young age.
what is an Ogbanje?
The House On Mango Street deals with these 4 major ideas
what are Gender roles/women, growing up/maturing, culture and heritage/foreignness and Social class?
It is what the simile in the title of "Like the sun" applies to.
(Like the sun meaning an amazing thing that you wouldn't want to get too close to)
what is truth? (or something like that)
These are the 3 kinds of in-text citations
what are direct/imbedded quotes, paraphrasing, and displaced author name?
Two missionaries sent to Umuofia. The first was kind and respectful, the second was not.
Who are Mr. Brown and Mr. Smith?
(I'm breaking jeopardy format here) Why does Esperanza relate to the trees in "Four Skinny Trees"?
She feels she does not belong
She is growing despite circumstances
"Lather and Nothing Else" features a military captain going to get a shave. At the end of the story, it is revealed that the captain knew the whole time that the barber was one of these.
what is a rebel?
what is a rebel informant?