Punctuation
“Enrique has started hanging out in a neighborhood known as El Infiernito, Little Hell” what is the comma used for?
Separate non-essential information
"You must find him another home"
The cost of instability in childhood
What writer's move is shown in this quote "“With Lourdes, he is a chatterbox”
metaphor
What type of sentence is this? “When are you coming home?”
Interrogative
What tone does this quote portray “Give me a kiss.”
love
“The only way she’ll go back now, she tells herself, is by force, if she is deported” how are the commas used here?
Set off non-essential information
What theme does this quote illustrate“ Sometimes they live on emergency welfare, by which the government pays for medical care and food for people who are destitute”
Extreme difficulties and poverty
What writer's move is shown here "his heart feels squeezed"
Imagery to make the emotional stakes feel physical
What type of sentence is this? "The cheapest Coyote costs three thousand dollars per child."
Simple
What tone does this quote show "Enrique longs to hear Lordes voice."
Yearning and heartbreak.
“But the rest of grandmother Maria's family says Enrique has to go: she is an old woman of seventy, and he is too much trouble for someone her age to raise. She knows they are right. Sadly she writes to Lourdes: You must find him another home.” what are the colon used for?
to introduce a quotation
“Enrique longs to hear Lorde's voice”
Yearning/heartbreak
What writer's move is demonstrate here "the tattoo on his arm is a map of his life, a mark of the choice he has made."
Symbolism
What type of sentence is this “Lourdes has decided: she will leave.”
Compound
“she finally says yes.”
Desperation
“He is hurting the family–and himself.” what is the dash used for?
to mark a break in sentence structure or parenthetical statement
What theme does Enrique expressing his wish to come to his mother?
Determination
What writer's move is demonstrated here ""I want to come to her", I tell her"
Foreshadowing
What type of sentence is this? “He looks at me as if he wasnt my son, as if he wants to strangle me.”
Complex
"he keeps a little photograph of her in a plastic bag so it won't get wet."
careful and cautiousness
"he feels abandoned; she feels desperate"
Linking to independent clauses
What theme does Enrique's mother leaving her children to work in the United States conveys?
Sacrifice
What writer's moves is used here? "one day she is there, and the next she's gone."
juxtaposition to highlight the instability of Enrique's childhood
What type of sentence is this “Enrique senses Uncle Marco loves him, and he values his uncle's advice.”
Compound-Complex
What tone does Enriques expressing his wish to come see his mother show?
Determination